Slime Mold Grows Network Just Like Tokyo Rail System
Laura Sanders 2010
link:: https://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-like-tokyo-rail-system/ doi::
Abstract
Talented and dedicated engineers spent countless hours designing Japan’s rail system to be one of the world’s most efficient. Could have just asked a slime mold. When presented with oat flakes arranged in the pattern of Japanese cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct networks of nutrient-channeling tubes that are strikingly similar to the […]