We've long known the slime mold can determine the shortest path through a maze, or even model optimal railway systems. Now, a group of researchers has shown these amoeba-like single-cell organisms ...

Like a water cooler but with slime. Death spitters will periodically spit out a slime with swords sticking out of it. Where do the swords come from? Anyway, the slimes slowly crawl along the ...

You got your good spit: Soldiers use it to shine their shoes. Dentists encourage an after-rinse ptui. A handshake deal really means something if it’s sealed with it. And you got your bad spit ...

Slime isn’t just for kids’ TV shows anymore—it could be the next breakthrough straight out of sci-fi. Researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada have developed “slime” that ...

And maybe, perhaps, a bit of slime? Such was the case for Karen Robinovitz, one of the co-founders of the Sloomoo Institute, a playful palace dedicated to all things gooey and goopy, where guests ...