When scientists discover a round, lumpy object that they can't totally explain, they have a special name for it: A blob. Blobs come in all shapes and sizes. Some are as small as cells, others as big ...

The original Blob was a vast expanse of unusually warm water in the northeast Pacific that persisted from 2014 to mid-2016. (The unusual moniker came about because the marine heatwave appeared as a ...

The Paris zoo's latest attraction is a brainless, eyeless, single-celled organism with no limbs or stomach but more than 700 genders. Meet the "blob", also known by its scientific name Physarum ...

A large and unusually warm mass of water is threatening to disturb the marine ecosystem along the Pacific Coast from Southern California to Alaska, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

A brainless, bright-yellow organism that can solve mazes and heal itself is making its debut at a Paris zoo this weekend. At least so far, "the blob" is more benevolent than the ravenous star of its ...

You wouldn’t know it just by gazing at its yellowish veins of matter, but the blob is perhaps the most cunning brainless organism on the planet. The single-cell slime mold, which lacks a nervous ...