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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

She lives in the house that slime built. No, the house isn’t made of slime. But slime had a big role in paying for it. The house belongs to Karina Garcia, the “Queen of Slime,” whose various videos ...

Green slime is practically synonymous with Nickelodeon: The icky substance is the ultimate symbol of the kids’ television network. It can found anywhere that carries the studio’s logo, from ...