Photo: Tanya Letty A slime mold , which is neither slime nor mold , has no brain. But that doesn't mean it... ...r experiment, Mr Reid and colleagues observed the slime mould exploring the dish, leavi...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/09/Slime-Mold-Remembers-with-External-Memory/
How do you design an efficient rail system... ...f dedicated engineers ... or you can simply ask a slime mold : When presented with oat flakes... ...cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct networks of nutrient-channe... ...odel based on the simple rules...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/26/Tokyo-Rail-System-as-Designed-by-Slime-Mold/
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/
The amoeba species Dictyostelium discoideum slime mold (or dicty, as scientists lovingly call it) is one... ...ng areas.Scientists have just discovered that the slime mold is even cannier than previously thought: it can a...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/20/slime-mold-packs-own-bacteria-lunch-to-colonize-new-areas/
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/
Watch slime molds and mushrooms grow in this time-lapse video. I wa...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/mushroom-madness/
