There are a lot of super-engaging, ultra-cool diversions in this world, from video games to board games to artistic pursuits. But let's be perfectly honest: few of them truly gloop or glop when you ...

Omer Gokcumen receives funding from National Science Foundation. But while slime is essential for all forms of complex life, its evolutionary origins have remained murky. Slime is made up of proteins ...

In Slime: A Natural History, science journalist Susanne Wedlich preempts her readers’ repulsion. Although “we are all creatures of slime,” she writes on page 2, the mere mention of the name connotes ...

Susanne Wedlich, trans. from the German by Ayça Türkoglu. Melville House, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-68589-020-9 Journalist and biologist Wedlich debuts with a slick dive into the “secret world” of ...

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 ...