Over billions of years gravity has pulled the universe’s matter into a chaotic netting of filaments, tendrils and voids known as the cosmic web.Galaxies are strewn along these strands like beads ...

The slime mold sent out tendrils in every direction, exploring the maze. Over time, it retracted from the dead ends and reinforced the path leading directly to the food.

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The patches in Trest’s yard were “dog vomit” slime mold, one of the plasmodial slime molds. They spend one phase of their lives as blobs searching for microorganisms to eat and another ...

Others compared the tendrils to the Mind Flayer, the undulating tentacle monster from the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things.” Some online comedians joked that it was the alien symbiote ...