The slime mold life-cycle is a bit complicated and has two different stages, consisting of an amoeboflagellate stage and a plasmodium stage. “After feeding on soil microbes, fungi and organic ...

Slime molds are like nothing else on earth. In their plasmodium stage, they show a quality that could be called intelligence: chopped up and dropped into a labyrinth, they will put themselves back ...

released a slime mold onto a Petri dish modeled on a map of the Greater Tokyo Area, with bits of food standing in for major urban centers. As the plasmodium sent its tendrils over the map ...

Motivated by food, slime mold can solve a maze. The plasmodium is a multipurpose body part. It absorbs food, but also gets the slime mold around. The plasmodium pulsates, sending waves outward to ...

What he discovered was that the slime molds were most attracted to an over ... 2011.5985.1 (2011) A plasmodium of acellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large single cell with many ...

Although brainless, this plasmodium is able to move in search ... Where to find them Preferred habitat for slime molds include garden mulches, damp forest floors, rotting logs and anywhere with ...

a group of slime molds that live part of their lives as a large single cell (from tiny to over 12 inches) containing many nuclei called a plasmodium. The plasmodium spends its time moving through ...

The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum grows as a single ... The behavior of the plasmodium “is really difficult to capture by words,” comments biochemist Wolfgang Marwan of Otto von ...

The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum grows as a single ... The behavior of the plasmodium “is really difficult to capture by words,” comments biochemist Wolfgang Marwan of Otto von ...

And there’s no limit to the number of individuals that can join the collective, called a plasmodium. Each cell of the slime mold is making decisions that ultimately benefit the whole collective.

The Plasmodium Consortium will be publicizing the results of their first analyses in an exhibit at the Hampshire College Art Gallery. Slime molds, Keats says, excel at making decisions that ...

Slime molds, despite being called “mold,” aren ... The Hampshire museum will host a “Plasmodium Symposium” on March 2, which will be open to the public and will serve as an opening ...