Single-celled slime mold has no brain or nervous system but remembers where it got its last meal

The single-celled Physarum polcephalum, or slime mold, does not have a brain or nervous system, but is able to remember the location of a food source, a new study reveals. German scientist sound the bright yellow slime mold records where its last meal was by changing the shape of its tubular tendrils. If it encounters … Read more