The slime mold is known for its remarkable “intelligence ... relationships between different organisms. It shows how a single-celled organism is able to overcome a much more complex fungus ...

Aggregation in slime molds has long fascinated scientists who study the origins of multicellularity—that is, how our single-celled ancestors came together to form tissues, eventually enabling the ...

scientists are racing single-celled organisms like cancer cells and slime molds through microscopic mazes along paths the width of a human hair. WSJ’s Robert Lee Hotz reports.

Slime molds have lived on Earth since long before the emergence of the human species. As single-celled organisms, slime molds do not have brains or nerves. And yet, they have ways of processing ...

The slime mold is known for its remarkable “intelligence ... relationships between different organisms. It shows how a single-celled organism is able to overcome a much more complex fungus ...

and which turned out to be slime mold growing on her lawn, according to the account. That’s a mold made up of single-celled organisms that moves around soil and generally amounts to oozy clumps ...