Andy Adamatzky, some of whose activities we have chronicled*, has issued three new slime mold action-adventure reports: “Schlauschleimer in Reichsautobahnen: Slime mould imitates motorway network in Germany,” Andrew Adamatzky, Theresa Schubert, arXiv:1209.3474, September 16, 2012. “The World’s Colonisation and Trade Routes Formation as Imitated by Slime Mould,” Andrew Adamatzky, arXiv:1209.3958 , September 18, 2012. “Route […]
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Are motorways rational from slime mould’s point of view?
Andy Adamatzky, an innovative writer of scientific reports [see our report about one of his earlier works], has joined with collaborators from many nations to do a new report about the apparently intelligent behavior of slime molds. He has published several papers that derive from the (double!) Ig Nobel Prize winning research of Toshiyuki Nakagaki and […]
What do you feed to a scheming slime mold?
What do you feed a puzzle-solving slime mold, if you want the slime mold to be at its best? A new study suggests that the traditional food ought be replaced with something better, and suggests what that something is: “On attraction of slime mould Physarum polycephalum to plants with sedative properties,” Andrew Adamatzky, Nature Preceedings, […]