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The great taste of slime

It wasn't intentional but when you're growing slime mold by the square meter it gets all over the place.  Physarum is very earthy and rathe…

Started by ian in Projects & Ideas

6 Jan 26, 2017
Reply by François-Joseph Deminiere

Do you recognise this?

Hi, We're relatively new in the physarum business. Below there are two pictures of which we are not certain of what we see. We're quite su…

Started by Hans Mulder in Links & Resources

5 Jan 21, 2017
Reply by Frank May

Capturing a wild slime mold

Has anyone here ever had any luck capturing and raising a slime mold found in the wild? If so, where did you find the wild slime? How did…

Started by Thomas Holder in Links & Resources

2 Dec 3, 2016
Reply by Crystal Davenport

What agar can grow Physarum without oat

Hi, I am new to Physarum Polycephalum. I see in most agar plates, we put oats. I was wondering if any kind of agar plate can grow Live Phy…

Started by Gus Xia in Links & Resources

0 Oct 13, 2016

Slime mould and public space project

Hi all, Ian is about to send me my first batch of slime mould, excited to get my hands mouldy! Thought I'd share what I'm up to and hopeful…

Started by Ed Fish in Links & Resources

5 Sep 30, 2016
Reply by Heather Barnett

Growth issues

Hi there,  I ordered a Physarum plate at Carolina last week but it didn't go well...The growth was little and the oats flakes started to r…

Started by Ophélie Queffurus in Links & Resources

3 Jul 10, 2016
Reply by Ophélie Queffurus

Hunting Physarum Polycephalum

I live in hyrum utah and i don't want to spend money on slime molds so I was wondering if the slime mold Physarum Polycephalum lives here a…

Started by Cire Sniknej in Links & Resources

4 Jul 1, 2016
Reply by Kristy keller

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Hi! According to this article in The Smithsonian, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/hunting-slime-molds-38805499/, a scientist…

Started by jnnstl in Projects & Ideas

4 Jun 23, 2016
Reply by Paige

How fast does slime's electricity change, and how much?

It grows very slowly, but it must communicate with electric waves faster than it grows. How much faster? Can we communicate with it as wave…

Started by Ben F Rayfield in Links & Resources

1 Jun 7, 2016
Reply by ian

Where does the slime live in the wild? Whats the biggest network of slime?

Experiments may be ignoring slime's fully grown "closest thing it has to a brain" which may only happen in large networks of slime, maybe c…

Started by Ben F Rayfield in Links & Resources

0 May 31, 2016

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