Slime moulds feature throughout HBO’s The Last of Us. While they aren’t a true fungus, they do have a lot in common with zombies.

Unsurprisingly, the Parisian slime mold has already captured the hearts and minds of people all over the world. Here’s why slime mold deserves your respect.

Until recently, slime molds have been left to amateur naturalists like Brenner to collect, and taxonomists to figure out how to classify.

Slime mould's favourite food, those who have worked with it in the lab have discovered, are porridge oats. It can flow across surfaces in search of oats and when it finds them it will form tubular ...