I spent a year of college teaching rats to find th... ...ind their way through a maze, and now I find that slime molds , which don't even have brains, can do the same th... ...aki of Japan's Future University Hakodate studies slime molds , which organize their colonies of cells to move t... ...to use these si...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/30/slime-molds-solve-maze/
How much do you know about slime molds ? These one-celled creatures live in our forests,... ...ncounter that they seem almost extraterrestrial. Slime molds are a remarkable lineage of amoebas that live in... ...of protoplasm.
While naturalists have known of slime molds for...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/05/those-sneaky-slime-molds/
No, it's not just a weird work of art, but a d... ...but a demonstration by two scientists about how a slime mold can be used to plan road and communications netwo... ...efficiently:
Physarum polycephalum, a type of slime mold , grows tendrils in search of food and withdraws e... ...opular Science, researc...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/19/road-map-of-the-us-made-by-a-slime-mold/