Warwick. Students can building a Petri-dish maze and watch slime mold chart the most efficient path to its meal beginning Feb. 8.
Slime mold doesn’t have a brain — but it can remember, problem-solve, and work collaboratively. This remarkable decomposer creeps along the forest floor, feeding on carbohydrates and bacteria. When it discovers food, the single-celled organism sends out chemical signals, gathering others to form a powerful...