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Slime mould has no brain, no neurons and no central control, yet when scientists placed food at 36 locations matching cities around Tokyo, it grew a network strikingly similar to the rail system — with comparable efficiency, cost and resilience
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (462+ words) A single-celled organism with no brain solved a transportation puzzle that took human engineers decades to perfect. Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit A brainless yellow blob spread across a wet plate in a Japanese lab and, meaning nothing by it,…...
The mantis shrimp is routinely described as seeing millions more colours than humans, but a 2014 Science study found something stranger: despite having 12 colour receptors, it was surprisingly poor at distinguishing similar hues. Researchers proposed that it scans colours more like a barcode reader than a painter’s eye—potentially sacrificing fine discrimination for faster recognition.
2+ week, 6+ day ago (249+ words) By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 23, 2026 · How we edit The team studied Haptosquilla trispinosa, a small mantis shrimp found on shallow reefs. The animals were trained to associate light of a particular wavelength with food. In the…...