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.

It sounds like something out of a horror film, but it's real: A genius slime mold that's capable of learning, solving puzzles and making decisions is on display at the Paris Zoological Park. The slime ...

This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Enter The Blob—a yellowish chunk of slime mold set to make its debut at the Paris Zoological Park on Saturday. With nearly 720 sexes, and the ability to ...

The organism known as Physarum polycephalum is part of the slime mold family and looks straight out of a horror movie. A Paris zoo is displaying a moving, problem-solving slime mold that is capable of ...

While mold is generally looked on as the stuff of nightmares or, at best, a minor annoyance, one strain has made waves around the world this year for its amazing feats of intelligence and athleticism.

A brainless, yellow slime mold — affectionately called the Blob — will be launched to the International Space Station to help study the effects of the station’s environment. Also known as known as ...

What do you call something that’s neither a plant, nor animal, nor fungus? In this case, the answer is “The Blob” — or, seeing as it exists in Paris, France, “Le Blob,” to be exact. To survive the ...

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 ...

This isn't a horror film, it's a real-life science exhibit at a Paris zoo featuring a "blob" that can move, eat, learn and heal itself in two minutes if it's cut in half. The "blob," named after the ...

IT lives on the forest floor but “the blob” could be the key to changing all of our everyday lives. Could you have got to work quicker if the road or railway had been designed not by a human, at vast ...

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 ...