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welcome to the cocky ride home for for Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird.

How a single-celled yellow slime is changing the way scientists think about intelligence.

A new upcycled food label that would let you know when your food has been made with food scraps

that would have otherwise gone to waste. And everything you need to know about this week's

strawberry supermoon. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. Meet Physerum polycephalum, a shockingly yellow slime-mold species that's been around mostly unchanged for a billion years.

Typically found in forest environments, the single-celled slime aids in the decaying of organic matter.

It's also capable of solving complex puzzles. Quoting science

alert, fizarum polycephalum, adorably nicknamed the blob by biologist Audrey Dusator isn't exactly rare.

It can be found in dark, humid, cool environments like the leaf litter on a forest floor. It's also really

peculiar. Although we call it a mold, it's not actually fungus, nor is it animal or plant, but a member

of the protist kingdom, a sort of catch-all group for anything that can't be neatly categorized

in the other three kingdoms. It starts its life as many individual cells, each with a

single nucleus. Then they merge to form the plasmodium, the vegetative life stage in which the

organism feeds and grows. In this form, fanning out in veins to search for food and explore its

environment, it's still a single cell, but containing millions or even billions of nuclei

swimming in the cytoplasmic fluid confined within the bright yellow membrane. End quote.

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