But a slime mold isn’t actually a fungus in the sense of the word as we understand it. Instead, it’s more like an amoeba and often appears as a giant, icky blob. They don’t really identify ...

Slime molds are like nothing else on earth ... orange or red—acts like a giant amoeba, gorging on its prey of bacteria, spores and even other myxos until it runs out of food, whereupon it ...

Aggregation in slime molds has long fascinated scientists who study the origins of multicellularity—that is, how our single-celled ancestors came together to form tissues, eventually enabling the ...

At Hampshire College, students and faculty use the amoeba Physarum polycephalum—both a “visiting scholar” and a model organism—to examine human societal and political quandaries. A form of spatial ...