All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Physarum: Slime Mold Simulator PHYSARUM is a sandbox simulation game. Simulate the real world slime mold Physarum polycephalum by generating millions of ...

Slime mold has one of the worst public images of any single-celled organism. For one thing, the Physarum polycephalum, as it's scientifically called, has a gross nickname evoking a drippy texture and ...

If you didn't have a brain, could you still figure out where you were and navigate your surroundings? Thanks to new research on slime molds, the answer may be "yes." Scientists from the Wyss Institute ...

Physarum polycephalum is the smartest slime mold you’ll ever meet. Really, though - this humble blob can solve problems and even teach its fellow slime molds to do the same. “Slime mold” is really a ...

Earthly slime mold models have helped astronomers map the cosmic web that connects galaxies throughout the universe. Slime mold, or Physarum polycephalum, is a single-cell organism that builds complex ...

Foraging abilities of the amoeboid slime mold Physarum polycephalum may be improved by "noise" in the form of intermittent light exposure, according to a study published March 29, 2017, in the ...

July 15 (UPI) --Can you think without a brain? According to a new study, slime molds can. Slime molds are without central nervous systems, but they are able sense tactile, chemical, and optical ...

Most of the time when we hear about AI, they're taking our jobs or putting us in jail or inflicting some other autonomic horror upon humans. But there's a second side to that AI coin. One in which ...

We've long known the slime mold can determine the shortest path through a maze, or even model optimal railway systems. Now, a group of researchers has shown these amoeba-like single-cell organisms ...