Sometimes digital communication just can't cut it, says Jacob Aron — time to bring the pneumatic
tube networks out of retirement
Not exact matches
This allowed the scientists to first print an interconnected
network of filaments, then melt them by chilling the material and suction the liquid
out to create a
network of hollow
tubes, or vessels.
The extension to a much larger
network of slime mold
tubes could process nanoparticles and carry
out sophisticated Boolean logic operations of the kind used by computer circuitry.