{"id":89915,"date":"2019-04-24T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/this-brainless-slime-learns-and-remembers"},"modified":"2019-04-24T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:04:00","slug":"this-brainless-slime-learns-and-remembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/this-brainless-slime-learns-and-remembers","title":{"rendered":"This Brainless Slime Learns And Remembers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-brainless-slime-learns-and-remembers3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O.o its prob gonna eat me someday :0.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Slime mould might easily be one of the strangest life forms on our planet. They are neither plants, animals, nor fungi, but various species of complex, single-celled amoebas of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protist\">protist kingdom<\/a>. Sometimes they form colonies able to grow, move, and even exhibit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/an-amoeba-has-solved-an-exponentially-complex-problem-in-linear-time\">a strange kind of intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even without a nervous system, they are able to learn about substances they encounter, retaining that knowledge and even communicating it to other slime moulds. Now a team of scientists at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has figured out how: slime moulds actually absorb the substance into their <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pre\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevE.82.046113\">veins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the CNRS\u2019 Centre for Research on Animal Cognition conducted their experiments on a fascinating little fellow called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Physarum_polycephalum\">Physarum polycephalum<\/a><\/em>, a single-celled blob with multiple nuclei, and a popular candidate for studying slime mould intelligence. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=czk4xgdhdY4\">Here<\/a> you can see it navigate a maze. Cool!) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/slime-mould-learns-about-substances-by-absorbing-them?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o its prob gonna eat me someday :0. Slime mould might easily be one of the strangest life forms on our planet. They are neither plants, animals, nor fungi, but various species of complex, single-celled amoebas of the protist kingdom. Sometimes they form colonies able to grow, move, and even exhibit a strange kind of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}