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  • Rated by sarahkeziah07 on Jul 16, 3:56pm

    Single celled slime learns reactions to stimuli.

  • Rated by jazzmoose on Jul 12, 10:10pm

    Egon knew.

  • Rated by DaddyWarbox on May 22, 11:03am

    Fascinating. Some form of basic memory and abstraction ability is at work. Kinda boggles my mind.

  • Rated by arunaftermath on Apr 23 2009, 2:24am

    From the page: "Single-celled slime molds demonstrate the ability to memorize and anticipate repeated events, a team of Japanese researchers reported in January. The study clearly shows primitive version of brain function in an organism with no brain at all." Really surprising news.

  • Rated by gt1987 on Apr 22 2009, 2:07am

    Slime Molds Show Surprising Degree of Intelligence

  • Rated by cosmicflurk on Apr 17 2009, 11:16pm

    Clearly, the ability to anticipate a periodic drop in temperature gave the ancestors of this slime mold a competitive advantage over those that could not.

  • Rated by gerardmcgarry on Mar 17 2009, 4:00pm

    Intelligent slime? Now that's freaky!

  • Rated by Worzel on Mar 12 2009, 8:36am

    The scientists point out that catching on to temporal patterns is no mean feat, even for humans. For a single cell to show such a learning ability is impressive, though Nakagaki admits he was not entirely surprised by the results. After working with the slime mold for years, he had a hunch that Physarum could be cleverer than expected. The findings of what lone cells are capable of might be a chance to reconsider what intelligence is, he says.