A brainless, yellow slime mold — affectionately called the Blob — will be launched to the International Space Station to help study the effects of the station’s environment. Also known as known as ...

This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Enter The Blob—a yellowish chunk of slime mold set to make its debut at the Paris Zoological Park on Saturday. With nearly 720 sexes, and the ability to ...

What do you call something that’s neither a plant, nor animal, nor fungus? In this case, the answer is “The Blob” — or, seeing as it exists in Paris, France, “Le Blob,” to be exact. To survive the ...

The Blob is heading to space: Nasa's sending a slime mould to the ISS to help study the effects of the environment on board Forget astronauts and rockets, Nasa's getting ready to send a brainless ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are set to welcome a most unusual guest, as "the Blob" blasts off into orbit on Tuesday. An alien on its own planet, the Blob is an unclassifiable ...

The Paris Zoological Park has added a brand-new blob to their collection. No, it's not a jellyfish. It's not even an animal, really — more like a living pile of old yellow silly string with a powerful ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are set to welcome a most unusual guest, as "the Blob" blasts off into orbit on Tuesday. An alien on its own planet, the Blob is an unclassifiable ...

Residents of a Derbyshire village were left baffled when mysterious yellow blobs began springing up in grassland. The slime-like substance was spotted in fields and in gardens near The Settlement in ...