Isabelle Howerton is an expert in slime — and she has the Instagram followers to prove it. The Spring Hill fourth-grader spends her time experimenting with different slime techniques and learns ...

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 ...

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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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Can organisms without brains or neurons learn? You bet. A paper ...

I’ve tried to stop, but I’m obsessed. I’m so embarrassed to admit this. But here goes. I’m addicted to slime. Yep. Seriously, at 32, I’m addicted to watching slime videos on Instagram and YouTube.