It isn't an animal, a plant, or a fungus. The slime mold (Physarum polycephalum) is a strange, creeping, bloblike organism made up of one giant cell. Though it has no brain, it can learn from ...

About 238 students guided by 50 parent volunteers got lessons in non-Newtonian physics, circuitry, fulcrum mechanics and surface tension at Glen Ridge's Forest Avenue School Friday. The students in ...

You don't need a brain to learn and teach. New research finds that slime molds, goopy and rather uncharismatic organisms that lack a nervous system, can adapt to a repulsive stimulus and then pass on ...