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A slime with memory

By Stephen Ornes / October 25, 2012

A slime mold, like the one shown here, leaves a trail of snotlike goo behind it. New research shows that a slime mold can tell where it’s been and usually avoids traveling on its own previous paths. Credit: Courtesy of Audrey Dussutour

Even without a brain, this slime mold knows where it’s been

Posted in Microbes, Fungi & Algae | Tagged Chris R. Reid, getinvolved, memory, microorganism, mucus, nuclei, nucleus, P. polycephalum, Physarum polycephalum, plasmodium, protists, slime mold, unicellular life. cells, University of Sydney

Making rocks into magnets

By Sid Perkins / September 28, 2012

Lodestone is the most magnetic and common type of natural magnet.Credit: Wikimedia/Ryan Somma

Lab experiments show one way that certain types of stones can morph into magnets

Posted in Chemistry, Earth | Tagged Charles Aubourg, claystone, crystals, Douglas Elmore, electrons, geology, getinvolved, lava, lodestone, magnet, magnetic field, magnetism, magnetite, mineral, nucleus, sedimentary rocks, topstories, University of Oklahoma, University of Pau and the Adour Countries

The hottest soup in New York

By Stephen Ornes / March 2, 2010

A quark-gluon plasma reaches the highest temperature ever measured in a lab.

Posted in Physics | Tagged atom, Atomic structure, atomic structure/nuclear chemistry, atoms and molecules, electron, gluon, modern physics, neutron, nuclear chemistry, nucleus, phases of matter, physics, proton, quark