There are a lot of super-engaging, ultra-cool diversions in this world, from video games to board games to artistic pursuits. But let's be perfectly honest: few of them truly gloop or glop when you ...

NEW YORK — A single-celled, amoebalike creature called a slime mold is capable of navigating through a maze to food, despite lacking a brain. The slime mold leaves behind a trail of goo as it oozes ...

In Slime: A Natural History, science journalist Susanne Wedlich preempts her readers’ repulsion. Although “we are all creatures of slime,” she writes on page 2, the mere mention of the name connotes ...

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 ...

She lives in the house that slime built. No, the house isn’t made of slime. But slime had a big role in paying for it. The house belongs to Karina Garcia, the “Queen of Slime,” whose various videos ...

Susanne Wedlich, trans. from the German by Ayça Türkoglu. Melville House, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-68589-020-9 Journalist and biologist Wedlich debuts with a slick dive into the “secret world” of ...