A slime mold called Physarum polycephalum can crawl from one
spot to another. Some people liken its appearance to moving, pulsing dog
barf.
Others clearly feel more tenderness toward the organism — enough
to spend much of their life studying it.
One such team of scientists now
reports finding that although slime molds lack a brain, this goo may
still have a memory of sorts.
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