Sentences with phrase «of slime mould»

Her research at Rupert will focus on the organisational systems of slime mould, fungi species, plants and deep sea creatures in relation to social structures.

From every litre of nutrient, slime mould and bacteria, the team obtains 50 grams of slime mould cells — ten times the number of cells that can be grown from a litre of animal cell starter.

After three days, the scientists harvest billions of slime mould cells, each containing rotavirus protein.

He's now working on a feedback mechanism to turn audio signals into light, allowing the slime mould to «hear» what its fellow musicians are playing, and will premiere a piece next year written for an ensemble of slime mould and traditional instruments.

The feeding fronds of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum turn out to have memory resistance — or memristance.

Many different species of slime mould may live in the same place.

We know that chemical gradients are involved in the ordering of the building of a termite nest and in the life history of slime moulds.

Spores of slime moulds on germination produce amoeba - like cells.

The cells of slime moulds, however, are more like animal cells in that their walls are less defined than plants; yet they also reproduce using spores, like plants.

Not exact matches

Yellow slime mould is known to follow traces of sweetness to locate food.

Hirokazu Tanimoto and Masaki Sano at the University of Tokyo, Japan, studied what happens during the division of Dictyostelium — a slime mould that has barely changed through eons of evolution.

Eduardo Miranda, a composer and researcher in artificial intelligence at the University of Plymouth, has created a slime mould accompanist.

Plasmids are free - floating rings of DNA present in bacteria and slime moulds.

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum consists of a network of tubes which shuttle nutrient around.

This slime mould is a protist that we are developing as a model organism to understand the evolution of decision - making.

To exemplify this we challenged the slime mould to build a network connecting the suburbs in a food - map of Tokyo (see YouTube video below: Credit: Dr. Seiji Takagi, Hokkaido University).

The distraction of an extra choice, no matter how poor, apparently serves to diminish the overall decision - making process for slime mould and investor alike.

It features patterns made up of images of the microbes she has cultured from her own body (ear, armpit and gut), her environment (dog, shower, sinks, fridge, soil) and slime - mould and mushroom cultures.

Bringing together slime moulds, submarine creatures and migrating birds, the show looks at «processes of emergence of non-neuronal and expanded forms of intelligence, both in nature and technology» and features work by Joey Holder, Anna Mikkola and Jenna Sutela.

The ideas of people like John Gray and James Lovelock, that humanity is a «slime - mould» or a «plague» aren't disregarded as misanthropic lunacy, but actually influence domestic and international political agendas.

This from the guy who tosses around endearing terms like idiot, petulant liar, fool, moron, hideously bloated and truculent denialist scumbag, mentally aberrant conservative son of a diseased camel, morally deficient lizard brain, scion of a toad and a slime mould, repugnant eater of children and defiler of mothers, Republican voter, a wart on the rump of the body politic, viewer of Faux News, disgusting purveyor of ideas picked up in the intellectual dung heaps of civilisation, soiler of underpants, bent over superannuated hag of obsolete ideologies, putrid despoiler of humanities past, present and future.