Older than the dinosaurs, slime from a primitive creature could be used for future bulletproof body armor. The hagfish is more than 300 million years old and it lives out of sight in the deepest ...
Slime mold has one of the worst public images of any single-celled organism. For one thing, the Physarum polycephalum, as it's scientifically called, has a gross nickname evoking a drippy texture and ...