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Toshiyuki Nakagaki (born 1963) is a Japanese professor, biologist, ethologist at the Research Institute of Electronic Science (RIES). [1] He is famous for leading experiments relating to slime mold , specifically its ability to solve mazes as a lifeform without a brain.
The Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST) is an open-ended projective test designed to investigate children's perceptions of the scientist. Originally developed by David Wade Chambers in 1983, the main purpose was to learn at what age the well known stereotypic image of the scientist first appeared.
She is best known for her work with slime mould. [1] and in 2014 gave a TED talk about slime mould. [2] She is the founding member of SLIMOCO: The Slime Mould Collective, a group of scientists and artists who work with slime mould. [3] She was also the 2014 "Artist-in-Restaurant" at the London restaurant Pied-a-Terre.
Magnetic slime robot is in the form of a blob of slime. It is said to be able to make C and O shapes with its body, and these robots could navigate passages as small as 1.5 millimeters. [3] Its self-healing properties make it able to connect with other separate parts of itself to make a whole.
Physarum polycephalum, an acellular [1] slime mold or myxomycete popularly known as "the blob", [2] is a protist with diverse cellular forms and broad geographic distribution. The “acellular” moniker derives from the plasmodial stage of the life cycle : the plasmodium is a bright yellow macroscopic multinucleate coenocyte shaped in a ...
A simple experiment to demonstrate the ideomotor effect is to allow a hand-held pendulum to hover over a sheet of paper. The paper has words such as "yes", "no", and "maybe" printed on it. Small movements in the hand, in response to questions, can cause the pendulum to move towards the words on the paper.
Find the best end-of-the-year gifts for students in K - 12. See fun fidget toys, bubbles and more parents and teachers can buy in bulk on sites like Amazon.
The idea of a green-beard gene was proposed by William D. Hamilton in his articles of 1964, [1] [2] and got the name from the example used by Richard Dawkins ("I have a green beard and I will be altruistic to anyone else with green beard") in The Selfish Gene (1976).