Computer models designed to simulate slime molds (left) turn out to be exceptionally good at simulating the large-scale structure of the universe (right).
Similar network patterns appear across scales differing by 30 orders of magnitude!
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NMSU astronomy research uses slime mold to model galaxies
When researchers in Japan conducted an experiment with slime mold that mirrored the Tokyo railway system back in 2010, it sparked the emergence of a theory known as biologically inspired adaptive...NMSU
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