How I made a slime mould the protagonist of my new sci-fi novel

How do you get the science right in a sci-fi book? Columnist Annalee Newitz started by asking many kinds of researchers lots of very strange questions – and ended up in love with slime moulds
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Published4 d ago (Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT)
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AuthorAnnalee Newitz