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You don’t need a brain to learn something new – not if you’re a slime mold, anyway. Scientists who watched Physarum polycephalum search for food found that the slime mold could learn to ignore certain ...

The yellow blob that you see in the picture at left is a slime mold, a strange one-cell organism that lives in damp, shadowy areas on the forest floor where it slowly navigates its environment, ...

Slime molds are among the world’s strangest organisms. Long mistaken for fungi, they are now classed as a type of amoeba. As single-celled organisms, they have neither neurons nor brains. Yet for ...

Isabelle Howerton is an expert in slime — and she has the Instagram followers to prove it. The Spring Hill fourth-grader spends her time experimenting with different slime techniques and learns ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Can organisms without brains or neurons learn? You bet. A paper ...

Sometimes, Audrey Dussutour enters her lab in Toulouse to find that one of the creatures within it has escaped. They tend to do so when they’re hungry. One will lift the lid of its container and just ...

Evidence mounts that organisms without nervous systems can in some sense learn and solve problems, but researchers disagree about whether this is “primitive cognition.” Slime molds are among the world ...