How a Slime Mold designed the Tokyo Railway System

Marcus Werner October 11, 2022
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Imagine if a single-celled organism, single handedly, designed the Tokyo Metro System? Well, this actually happened when a group of Japanese researchers at Hokkaido University put a slime mold on a map of Tokyo, to see how it would connect between urban hotspots.. Main Study: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1177894 Support me by liking, commenting and subscribing!