Slime Santa beard likes hot peppers

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 08:50 in Biology & Nature

A slime Santa beard has been made by Ian Hands-Portman at the University of Warwick using slime molds, a myxomycete which is a single giant cell with multiple nuclei that lives in dark damp places and likes to feed off bacteria and fungi and things that have started to decay.

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