Just as humans can use mobile phones or notebooks for memory storage and recall, slime moulds can use slime. Granted, ...

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It is a particular kind, Physarum polycephalum, that has an unusual property — it can shapeshift, at least to a limited degree. The tiny creature is just like us in that it tries to get things ...

In a landmark experiment from 2010, Atsushi Tero and colleagues at Hokkaido University explored how the slime mold Physarum polycephalum could be used to model efficient transportation networks.

The experiment used Physarum polycephalum, and Professor Adamatsky and his team measured the resistance of a 1cm long, 0.03cm diameter slime mold to measure its electrical conductivity, finding ...

Single-celled slime molds demonstrate the ability to memorize and anticipate repeated events, a team of Japanese researchers reported in January. The study [pdf] clearly shows “a primitive version of ...

As our understanding of animal intelligence deepens, society faces ethical dilemmas regarding the treatment and rights of even the simplest non-human animals.

What's new — The study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigates how, exactly, giant slime molds (Physarum polycephalum) encode memories in ...

We have elected to study this process in the slime mold Physarum polycephalum (Pp), which carries out the widest range of RNA editing events yet described. These changes to mitochondrial RNAs involve ...

Dewdrops cling to the sporangia of Physarum album as they open to release their spores. The patches in Trest’s yard were “dog vomit” slime mold, one of the plasmodial slime molds.

But Physarum has a long history of surprising scientists with its ability to create optimal distribution networks and solve computationally difficult spatial organization problems. In one famous ...