HMM, a burger or salad? We use our brains to judge the nutritional value of foods. Now it seems that slime mould can make similarly complex decisions – despite being just a giant super-cell.
Yellow slime mould is known to follow traces of sweetness to locate food. Now of the National Centre for Scientific Research in Toulouse, France, has found that it can also detect nutrients from afar and judge the most nutritious food before moving. In the absence of an optimal food source, it will also stretch itself between two sources, precisely calculating how much of its…
