A team of biologists and engineers at Chapman University, working with colleagues from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Guelph, has found that slime produced by hagfish has far more clogging ...
Queen's University professor Selim Akl has provided additional proof to the theory that nature computes.
Computer Sciences
Mar 26, 2012
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Northrop Grumman's latest space station delivery includes pizza for seven.
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2021
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In HBO's post-apocalyptic drama "The Last of Us," human civilization has fallen in the face of a fungal takeover triggered by climate change.
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2023
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Apoptosis, often referred to as programmed cell death, is a fundamental process crucial to the growth and development of multicellular organisms. This process, or a primordial form of it, is also observed in single-celled ...
Evolution
Oct 12, 2023
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Bees? Great. Ants? Hit or miss. Slime mold amoebas? Fail. Though nature offers excellent design inspirations in some information technology systems, in other systems, it can bomb.
Plants & Animals
Feb 19, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cheaters may prosper in the short term, but over time they seem doomed to fail, at least in the microscopic world of amoebas where natural selection favors the noble.
Evolution
Oct 1, 2009
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It isn't an animal, a plant, or a fungus. The slime mold (Physarum polycephalum) is a strange, creeping, bloblike organism made up of one giant cell. Though it has no brain, it can learn from experience, as biologists at ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 21, 2016
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at the University of the West of England have found that the feeding fronds on a type of slime mold have a property known memory resistance, which has been shortened to the term memristance. In their ...
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 open-access journal PLOS ONE ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 29, 2017
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