Scientists Just Discovered the Secret Behind One of Nature’s Smartest Brainless Organisms

For a thing without a brain, there’s a particular type of slime mold out there that is especially intelligent. According to research detailed by ScienceAlert and published in PRX Life, the bright yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum can solve mazes, remember routes, and consistently find efficient paths to food without anything even closely resembling a [...] The post Scientists Just Discovered the Secret Behind One of Nature’s Smartest Brainless Organisms appeared first on VICE .