Slime Mould Has Been Used to Recreate The Invisible Web Holding Our Universe Together

By Peter Dockrill Astronomers have used an algorithm based on the growth patterns of slime mould to map something that’s basically impossible to see: the cosmic web of gas and dark matter underpinning the very structure of the Universe. Slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) is one of the weirdest life forms on the planet, but we shouldn’t underestimate these …