The yellow blob that you see in the picture at left is a slime mold, a strange one-cell organism that lives in damp, shadowy areas on the forest floor where it slowly navigates its environment, ...

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Slime molds are among the world’s strangest organisms. Long mistaken for fungi, they are now classed as a type of amoeba. As single-celled organisms, they have neither neurons nor brains. Yet for ...

Mary Giesting, her hands covered in slime, is smiling when we first meet. Her partners in slime -- a group of kindergarten students on a Monday morning visit to Plainfield Schools' new Imagination Lab ...