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Here is also slime mold 'communicating' their knowledge to other slime mold https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17491547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
by vinchuco 8y ago
Here is also slime mold 'communicating' their knowledge to other slime mold https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17491547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17491547 .
For anyone that is fascinated by nature studies and would like to be exposed to more of them rather than the article about the article I can't recommend PNAS enough. Part of what motivated me to continue graduate studies.
- sakopov 8y agoHere is an article from 2010 about slime mold building a network which is a more efficient version of the Tokyo subway system [1]. This is absolutely fascinating. [1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/01/22/brainless-slime-mold-builds-a-replica-tokyo-subway/#.W0dZeHNMF-E http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/01/22/brainle...