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a researcher at the University of the West of England, UK, takes a petri dish of agar and holds it over a map. Then, he places oats where each of the major cities is, and dollops a lump of slime mold at the nation capital. The networks that the slime forms pretty much tally exactly with the roads humans have built between the real cities. If you don ;t quite believe that, I don ;t really blame you. But he done the same experiment using maps of Canada, China, Australia, the UK, France, and a bunch more鈥?2 in total鈥攁nd the same thing happens each time. He speculate stanley kubek termiczny s that it because roads are actually based on unplanned paths that were also originally chosen by living creatures鈥攚hether humans or roaming cattle. Whatever; I just think it amazing. [arXiv via New Scientist; Image: Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England] moldroadsScienceSlime stanley termoska stanley deutschland Daily Newsletter You May Also Like Tech NewsArtificial Intelligence AI Could Be Making Scientists Less |
