By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...

Mireta wants to translate slime mold’s superpowers into algorithms that might help improve transit times, alleviate congestion, and more. It is a yellow blob with no brain, yet some researchers ...

Mold is pretty much everywhere. A hugely diverse category of fungi, molds reproduce by releasing clouds of microscopic spores—seed-like particles that can land and thrive almost anywhere with water, ...

Through the looking glass: Artist Stephanie Rentschler recently unveiled SlimeMoldCrypt, an interactive installation where art meets science by using biology to generate stronger encryption keys.

Health inspectors found cockroaches in drink stations at a Modesto bar. Violations across multiple locations included expired food, low temps and leaks. Inspections were conducted at 37 establishments ...

Further in the depths of the Broken Smelting Furnace in Shadow Labyrinth, you'll find an exceptionally large slime that's determined to block your path and burn you alive, presumably in that order.

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(THE CONVERSATION) Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and it squishes easily between your fingers. Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you’ll struggle to break it. Both ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mohamed Khalil Elhachimi, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE ...