At the Biodesign Summit, students paired with scientists to develop projects that merged biotech and design. The resulting projects, presented at a recent summit at MoMA, showcase the most innovative ...

Not a day goes by that I do not think of the wonder and almost spiritual brilliance of mushrooms and other fungi, because I am an ant and an invasive fungus has taken control of my brain. For the rest ...

Slime time: A velvet worm producing slime. (Courtesy: Poulhazan A et al. 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c06798 The ...

A new discovery about the slime ejected by velvet worms could revolutionize sustainable material design. The findings outline how a naturally occurring protein structure, conserved across species from ...

It doesn’t have a brain and survives on rotting vegetable matter — but it could offer valuable insights into city planning, according to a team of University of Toronto Engineering researchers.

What could human engineers possibly learn from the lowly slime mold? Reliable, cost-efficient network construction, apparently: a recent experiment suggests that Physarum polycephalum, a gelatinous ...