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SLIME MOLD EMOCIONS. "Ella Gale has created a link between slime mold "emotions" and a humanoid face. Gale let slime mold ooze across an environment full of both food and electrodes. The electrodes captured signals as the mold either headed towards food or shied away from light, producing a log of how the loosely affiliated cells communicate with each other." https://lnkd.in/d62pepS View in LinkedIn

SCALING BY LINEAGE. “In contrast to rodent brains, which scale hypermetrically in size with their numbers of neurons, primate brain size increases approximately isometrically as a function of neuron number, with no systematic change in neuronal density or in the non-neuronal/neuronal ratio with increasing brain size.” https://lnkd.in/d2aUKat View in LinkedIn

CHEMICAL TO ELECTRICAL INTERFACE. "The electrodes captured signals as the mold either headed towards food or shied away from light, producing a log of how the loosely affiliated cells communicate with each other. Since slime mold possesses a kind of decentralized, low-level intelligence — a mass of mold can even form memories — that's not too far from studying the workings of a simple brain." https://lnkd.in/d62pepS View in LinkedIn

MUSICAL SLIME MOULD. "When Miranda tickles the keys, information about the notes is sent via a microphone to a computer, which translates the sounds into electrical signals that are sent to the biocomputer. The slime mold processes these electrical signals and sends that information back to the conventional computer, which then creates voltages. These voltages cause electromagnets, hovering above the piano strings, to vibrate the strings, causing the wobbly notes you hear." https://lnkd.in/d-DJxqq View in LinkedIn

SLIME MOULD DUET. "Slime mould and researcher set to play piano duet. When the piano keys are played, the cultured slime mould responds by changing its shape, and this movement creates electrical energy. By capturing the slime mould’s electrical energy and transforming it into sound, this new technology allows the slime mould to provide an auditory response to Miranda’s original musical phrase." https://lnkd.in/d98X_Kx View in LinkedIn

SLIME MOULD COMMUNICATION. "A crucial part of researching how D. discoideum is able to form multicellular bodies from its unicellular components is understanding how those single cells communicate with each other in these aggregation and differentiation processes." https://lnkd.in/dzE-VSU View in LinkedIn

BRAINLESS MEMORY. "The findings are the first to identify 'memory' in an organism without a brain or central nervous system." https://lnkd.in/dTFCqQ5 View in LinkedIn