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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Slime offers “a kind of lusty frisson”, Wedlich observes, and so her book is also a deft cultural history of the idea of slime as well as an up-to-the-minute exegesis of its science. Which is still ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and a liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our fascination in fiction and on the screen. It is both a vehicle for ...

Why we find slime so universally disgusting, and why we should overcome our disgust and appreciate the vital role it plays in keeping us healthy. Show more Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists ...