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 ...

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 ...

Single celled organisms are not famed for their intelligence – but a new study suggests that, even without a brain, slime mould can actually "learn". In a study published in *Proceedings of the Royal ...

Can organisms without brains or neurons learn? You bet. A paper published April 27 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that one species of slime mold—a primitive organism made up ...

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The humble unicellular slime mold's amazing ability to learn and impart learning even with no brain has been highlighted in a new study. The organism Physarum polycephalum is no plant, animal, or a ...

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 ...