Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week someone asked me what's the strangest thing I had encountered in the Gulf of Maine. It got me thinking. I have seen a ...

The slimy coating on nameko mushrooms, a staple in Japanese miso soup, turns out to be remarkably good at grabbing tiny ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Omer Gokcumen is an associate professor of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo. Slime is everywhere. It shapes the consistency of your ...

Beatrix LeBeau is great a slime ranching. She’s so good that she’s sort of famous? At least, someone noticed, because a mysterious letter invited her to the Rainbow Islands. It’s a haven filled with ...

In the 1960s, the New York City Fire Department decided to copy some fish. Specifically, they copied predatory bony types like the perch and barracuda, which emit a slimy substance that reduces ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hagfish© Peter Southwood, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Peter Southwood, CC BY-SA 4.0) The post The 300-Million-Year-Old ‘Slime Monster’ That Can ...

From the slime coating slugs to the saliva in our mouths, many slippery bodily fluids contain mucus. So how did this marvel of biology evolve? In mammals, the answer is many times, and often in a ...

Pitched as a cute, approachable “Souls-lite,” Slime Heroes combines two of my favorite things in video games: adorable slimes and Dark Souls-style gameplay. Despite some good ideas, Slime Heroes’ ...