Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last August scientists confirmed clumps of bacteria have no problem surviving on the outside of the International Space Station.

In HBO's post-apocalyptic drama "The Last of Us," human civilization has fallen in the face of a fungal takeover triggered by climate change. The show's opening credits and creature designs are ...

For organisms without brains, slime molds show an impressive array of problem-solving behaviors: they can solve mazes and even figure out the optimal layout for the railway system connecting cities ...

The slime mold Physarum polycephalum growing in a petri dish. (Photo by Nirosha Murugan, Levin lab, Tufts University and Wyss Institute at Harvard University via Courthouse News) (CN) — Researchers ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – An art exhibit of slime-mold at Hampshire College is generating a lot of attention, and for good reason. This kind of organism, which has existed for half a billion years, is ...

Slime research may not be the sexiest science, but produces some truly wild results. So wild, in fact, a new study reconfigures our understanding of not only animal intelligence, but also the very ...

Last August scientists confirmed clumps of bacteria have no problem surviving on the outside of the International Space Station. For three years and counting, in fact. Now, another gross yet ...