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Single-celled slime mold has no brain or nervous system but remembers where it got its last meal

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The single-celled Physarum polcephalum, or slime mold, does not have a brain or nervous system, but is able to remember the location of a food source, a new study reveals. German scientist sound the bright yellow slime mold records where its last meal was by changing the shape of its tubular tendrils. If it encounters … Read more

Four bizarre new species of giant single-celled organisms discoverd in the Pacific Ocean

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Four new species of giant single-celled organisms that live inside ‘skeletons’ up to four inches long have been discovered lurking in the Pacific Ocean. Two were found hiding inside fan-shaped or flat structures poking out of the seafloor, that they had built themselves, while a third was identified inside a near-perfect ball made out of … Read more