The slime mold, a species called Physarum polycephalum, is not actually a mold at all; it's a single-celled protist. These giant cells can grow to square meters in area, though most are a few square ...

Researchers are getting eye to eye with a microscopic pathogen living in Padilla Bay's eelgrass meadow. Labyrinthula zosterae, the pathogen that causes eelgrass wasting disease, is what is known as a ...

The following is an extract from our nature newsletter Wild Wild Life. Sign up to receive it for free in your inbox every month. New Scientist recently reported on something I’d never heard of before: ...