In the natural world, intelligence requires a brain, right? Who would deny that? Yet I’ve just learned there’s at least one ...

What a brainless slime mold can teach us about decision-making, intellectual curiosity, and thriving in an uncertain world.

Pilot projects are research projects carried out by doctoral researchers and postdocs from working groups in the Cells in Motion Interfaculty Centre. In interdisciplinary teams, they can plan and ...

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Although typically associated with a nervous system, simple organisms also show complex behaviours. Among them, the slime mold Physarum polycephalum, a giant single cell, is ideally suited to study ...

Biological research can, at times, be mind-numbingly tedious: scientists often have to do the same experiment over and over on many different samples. When working with animals such as fruit flies, ...

When Dussutour and her colleagues noticed that foraging P. polycephalum do not often cross earlier paths, they decided to put the slime mold to the test. The researchers presented P. polycephalum with ...