Slime Mold Proves to Be a Brainy Blob

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Slime Mold Proves to Be a Brainy Blob

Researchers in Japan have shown that a slime mold can design a network that is as efficient as one developed by humans over many years: the Tokyo rail system. Furthermore, the slime mold can build its network in a day.

The abstract of the experiment is this:

Transport networks are ubiquitous in both

Comments

[ru_screw]

ahahah i read this on tuesday!
i was so fascinated

[premium_shaday]

COOL.

[chyroptera]

The network is robust!

This is really neat.

[flewellyn]

The slime mold came up with a network that is a series of tubes?

Hmm...