The world's oceans are ground zero for climate change. They cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface and contain 97% of the planet's water. A weather phenomenon known as the "blob" is impacting the ...

Outside a small Pennsylvania town, a meteorite falls from the sky in the dead of night. From within emerges a gelatinous, alien mass – an organism that grows inside and threatens to consume everything ...

The yellow net-like bits are “the blob” (Physarum polycephalum), a plasmodium slime mold that inhabits shady, cool, moist areas, such as decaying leaves and logs. The blob is a unicellular organism ...

In a 2016 New York Times Magazine profile of Ben Rhodes, the top aide to then-President Barack Obama derisively labeled America’s foreign policy establishment “the blob.” With that term, now ...

Philadelphia, 1950. Two patrolling police officers witness an object falling from the sky, then discover a mysterious, glowing ooze hanging off a corner telephone pole. As they go in for a closer look ...

The 1950s saw the rise of cinematic mutated monsters, reflecting post-war anxieties about nuclear weapons and science. Many believe that The Blob, a 1958 film about a carnivorous alien blob, was ...

In Maggie Su’s funny debut novel, a Frankenstein-like monster turns on his flailing creator. By Weike Wang Weike Wang is the author, most recently, of the novel “Rental House.” When you purchase an ...