HONG KONG - Imagine a piece of slime slithering through your body, making its way through your small intestine to give surgeons "an extra hand." That's exactly what Professor Li Zhang and his team of ...

Scientists working at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have created something that looks horrifying, and only gets more upsetting when you learn it's designed to crawl around inside your body. The ...

I was on my regular Duluth dog walk last week when I spotted this in a neighbor’s mulch. I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure this is a slime mold – specifically, “dog vomit” slime mold: Fuligo septica.

Last Saturday, the Paris Zoological Park unveiled a new specimen, and even though it’s at the zoo, it’s not an animal. It’s called a slime mold, and it’s probably the coolest organism you’ve never ...