We’re heading for another La Niña winter, the same climate pattern as last winter, but that doesn’t mean a repeat.

An unprecedented die-off has been declared in Alaska, where as many as four million murres are estimated to be missing from ...

On the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, a sprawling, spider-like mark has become one of the most puzzling features in ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Blob, formally known as Physarum polycephalum, is a type of ...

The blobs first appeared in the spring of 2013. They were roundly amorphous, like cookie dough plopped onto a baking sheet. Their faces, a rainbow of emotions, had mouths that turned up and down in ...

I started playing an online game called agar.io a few weeks ago, and by now it’s swallowing up almost all my leisure time. I’ve stopped reading, watching movies — it’s weird! I probably have a few ...

For this writer, it’s one of the coolest horror movie death scenes ever conceived. A waitress barricades herself inside a phone booth, while outside, a quivering morass of sentient jelly tries to ...

The yellow net-like bits are “the blob” (Physarum polycephalum), a plasmodium slime mold that inhabits shady, cool, moist areas, such as decaying leaves and logs. The blob is a unicellular organism ...