Toshiyuki Nakagaki, professor of Future University Hakodate Credit: Photo: SHINGO ITO/AFP/Getty Images Toshiyuki Nakagaki, a professor at Future University Hakodate, northern Japan, cultivates the ...

Made up of just a single cell and lacking any brain, or even any neurons and connections for that matter, you wouldn’t think much of the humble slime mold. But these creatures seem to display quite ...

Joe Rogan was left stunned when he learned of an intelligent slime that was put to work in Tokyo and helped recreate a more efficient model of the city's subway system. Back in 2017, The Joe Rogan ...

Paris: What is intelligence? The definitions vary, but all infer the use of grey matter, whether in a cat or a human, to learn from experience. On Wednesday, scientists announced a discovery that ...

Last night, the Annals of Improbable Research held its 18th annual Ig Nobel Prizes. The prizes are awarded for scientific and social achievements “that first make people laugh, then make people think.

Slime molds, which live in soil, are truly ancient animals. They arrived on land close to a billion years ago and may well have colonized continents that were then home only to films of bacteria.

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