Meanings of slime mould in English

It contains an analogue computing circuit with components grown from a slime mould.

An electron microscopic view of slime mould, inspired one of her best known works.

But current research suggests the slime mould leaves chemical markers on unsuccessful routes as a reminder.

A slime mould would easily survive similar treatment.

According to the slime mould the motorway should be rerouted along the east coast through Newcastle.

An individual human consciousness is infinitely more advanced than that of a single slime mould micro-organism.

Bottom-up organisational models, from slime mould to WTO protests, seem better able to address today's participatory sensibility.

Likewise, the slime mould growing in damp fields and forests all around us can exhibit remarkably coordinated behaviour.

At first glance, the proposition that human civilisation imitates the behaviour of slime mould is preposterous, an evolutionary leap backwards.

Forget The Starfish and the Spider, this would herald the age of the slime mould, that curious creature so often referenced in digital thinking.

A developmentally regulated metabolism of chlorinated compounds may therefore be widespread amongst slime moulds.

Slime moulds are masses of protoplasm that share characteristics of both fungi and animals.

Slime mould grows at 1cm an hour in optimum conditions, and will successfully map most problems in a few days.

Back in 2008, researchers at Hokkaido University repeatedly subjected successfully growing slime moulds to low temperatures and dry air every 30 minutes.