Can you have a memory if you don't have a brain? The question has been answered with the discovery that brainless slime moulds use excreted chemicals as a memory system. The finding by University of ...

Through the looking glass: Artist Stephanie Rentschler recently unveiled SlimeMoldCrypt, an interactive installation where art meets science by using biology to generate stronger encryption keys.

A few years ago, Jasmine Lu was just starting her PhD program in computer science at the University of Chicago. She worked in a lab that integrated devices with the human body. And she knew she wanted ...

Designing autonomous robots that collectively solve complex tasks requires innovations in both hardware and software. Inspired by the behavior of slime mold (Physarum polycephalum), which demonstrates ...

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Dr. William Seifriz of the University of Pennsylvania lives a quiet bachelor’s life in Chester Springs, collects old Italian bronze and French porcelain, permits no telephone in his house. At his ...

Mathematicians from the University of Amsterdam ran an experiment where a frictionless billiard ball was given spatial memory, meaning it never crossed its own path twice. After running the simulation ...

Slime molds, which live in soil, are truly ancient animals. They arrived on land close to a billion years ago and may well have colonized continents that were then home only to films of bacteria.