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Using a ‘virtual slime mold’ to design a subway network less prone to disruption
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It doesn’t have a brain and survives on rotting vegetable matter—but it could offer valuable insights into city planning, according to a team of University of Toronto researchers. Physarum polycephalum is a slime mold, a single-celled amoeboid organism that grows as a greenish-yellow system of veins. These veins form a tubular network that is optimized to transfer nutrients...
This shapeshifting slime is designed to enter the human body
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The tiny soft robot is designed to retrieve swallowed objects.