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    'The Blob,' A Smart Yet Brainless Organism Fit For Sci-Fi, Gets Its Own Exhibit

    Is it an animal? A type of fungi? No, it's "the blob." The amorphous "slime mold" may not have a nervous system, but it's the star of a new exhibit at the Paris zoo.
    by Scott Simon Oct 20, 2019 1 minute
    The Paris Zoological Park is home to <em>Physarum polycephalum,</em> better known as "the blob," a unicellular organism capable of learning despite its lack of neurons.

    A brainless, bright-yellow organism that can solve mazes and heal itself is making its debut at a Paris zoo this weekend.

    At least so far, "the blob" is more benevolent than the ravenous star of its 1950s sci-fi

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