2010年1月21日 · In a Japanese laboratory, a group of scientists is encouraging a rapidly expanding amoeba-like blob to consume Tokyo. Thankfully, the blob in question is a “slime mould” just around 20cm wide,...

2010年1月22日 · Single-celled slime molds, they found, can build networks as complex as the Tokyo subway system. The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum grows as a single cell that is big enough to be seen with the naked eye.

2010年1月22日 · When presented with oat flakes arranged in the pattern of Japanese cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct networks of nutrient-channeling tubes that are...

2010年1月21日 · Since the best city planners around the world have not been able to end traffic jams, scientists are looking to a new group of experts: slime mold. That's right, a species of gelatinous amoeba...

2022年1月27日 · Back in 2010, a team of researchers from Japan and the U.K. fed a slime mold with nutrients arranged to imitate the nodes of the Tokyo subway system. The resulting network was strikingly...

2010年1月21日 · If you want to design a railway system, you could do worse than hire a slime mold. Researchers have shown that, when grown on a map of Japan, the gelatinous, funguslike organism connects points of interest in a pattern similar to Tokyo's train network.

2018年1月29日 · Despite growing and expanding without a central coordination system like the brain, the mould had re-created an interconnected network made of slimes that looks almost exactly like the efficient, well-designed Tokyo subway system.

Scientists in Japan decided to see how the mold would navigate the Tokyo area, and set up a "map" with oak flakes—slime mold's favorite food—marking local cities.

2024年1月16日 · Explore how slime mold inspired Tokyo's subway design, showcasing biomimicry as a key to innovative urban planning and growth. Read now on SD Zen Zone.

2010年1月22日 · They watched the slime mold self-organize, spread out, and form a network that was comparable in efficiency, reliability, and cost to the real-world infrastructure of Tokyo's train network.