Farmers once commonly used this kitchen tool for their butter. However, nowadays, it's antiquated and sought out by ...

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 ...

I have a slight addiction to all things sugary. Gummy bears, sour straws, and Twizzlers are almost always within my reach. But when I’m feeling particularly self-conscious about my sugar intake, my ...

Once you’ve seen a slime mold—its gooey, delicately branching structure oozing in a vaguely unsettling way along a log or leaf—you’re unlikely to forget it. They’re unmistakable because there’s ...

When temperatures skyrocket, there’s no better way to cool down than with an ice pop made from fresh ingredients. The best popsicle molds allow you to customize your frozen treats and unmold them ...

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 ...