Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Blob, formally known as Physarum polycephalum, is a type of ...

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Scientists have spent the past decade tracking an enormous pool of unusually warm water in the North Pacific, a marine “blob” that has reshaped ecosystems and challenged long‑held assumptions about ...

A quintessential drive-in horror movie, The Blob has been absorbing viewers for more than 50 years. 1. IT’S BASED ON A (SUPPOSEDLY) TRUE STORY. On September 27, 1950, The Philadelphia Inquirer ran an ...

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Outside a small Pennsylvania town, a meteorite falls from the sky in the dead of night. From within emerges a gelatinous, alien mass – an organism that grows inside and threatens to consume everything ...

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The yellow net-like bits are “the blob” (Physarum polycephalum), a plasmodium slime mold that inhabits shady, cool, moist areas, such as decaying leaves and logs. The blob is a unicellular organism ...