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 ...

June Squibb is spreading the joy of childhood literacy. In celebration of National Slime Day on Dec. 11, the Academy Award-nominated actress, 95, teamed up with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Storyline ...

Once you’ve seen a slime mold—its gooey, delicately branching structure oozing in a vaguely unsettling way along a log or leaf—you’re unlikely to forget it. They’re unmistakable because there’s ...

Christopher Howe is professor of plant and microbial biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK. So it is a real pleasure to see Slime (sold as Bloom in some ...

A slew of popular-science books have set out to convince readers that some overlooked, obscure or generally disdained category of thing is actually wildly important, whether it’s salt, garbage or ...

Stacey Garska Rodriguez created The Soccer Mom Blog as a resource for recipe ideas, shared motherhood experiences, beauty products, fitness tips, pregnancy tips and more. As one of Houston’s bloggers, ...

Most people have a natural aversion to slime, said Simon Ings in The Times. Yet according to the German biologist Susanne Wedlich, this wondrous substance deserves closer attention. Slime, she tells ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — From grabbing your favorite comic book to making slime, there will be a bit of everything for pop culture and comic fans at the 8th annual Saratoga Comic Con at the Saratoga Springs ...