Not a day goes by that I do not think of the wonder and almost spiritual brilliance of mushrooms and other fungi, because I am an ant and an invasive fungus has taken control of my brain. For the rest ...

With Slime Rancher 2's v1.0 update releasing and the game's main story now having a conclusion, Hardcore Gamer was able to reach out to Monomi Park with a few questions he had about the series' story ...

We've written before about taking inspiration and actual materials from nature to engineer newer, targeted versions for a variety of uses. Creative engineers have made a material from shrimp shells ...

Slime time: A velvet worm producing slime. (Courtesy: Poulhazan A et al. 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c06798 The ...

What could human engineers possibly learn from the lowly slime mold? Reliable, cost-efficient network construction, apparently: a recent experiment suggests that Physarum polycephalum, a gelatinous ...