Category: slimelapsegallery

#SlimeLapseGallery - Episode 5

If you’ve ever watched a slime mold move, you have more patience (and spare time) than I do. If you prefer ‘real action’ over ‘real time’, then #SlimeLapseGallery is the place for you. Brought to you by the SwarmLab, see all the best timelapse videos of slime mold, from the web and from our lab. Episode 5: Slime mold in its natural habitat Today’s #SlimeLapseGallery video shows a slime mold - probably the ‘dog vomit’ slime mold, Fuligo septica - moving up a log from the forest floor over 5 hours. The pulsating behavior... Read more.

Date: May 2, 2015 | Categories: blog • slimelapsegallery •

#SlimeLapseGallery - Episode 4

If you’ve ever watched a slime mold move, you have more patience (and spare time) than I do. If you prefer ‘real action’ over ‘real time’, then #SlimeLapseGallery is the place for you. Brought to you by the SwarmLab, see all the best timelapse videos of slime mold, from the web and from our lab. Episode 4: The collective slug The SwarmLab’s slime mold of choice is the acellular (or plasmodial) slime mold Physarum polycephalum. The ‘acellular’ indicates that this slime mold is a single cell, and the macroscopic creature you see is not composed of... Read more.

Date: April 2, 2015 | Categories: blog • slimelapsegallery •

#SlimeLapseGallery - Episode 3

If you’ve ever watched a slime mold move, you have more patience (and spare time) than I do. If you prefer ‘real action’ over ‘real time’, then #SlimeLapseGallery is the place for you. Brought to you by the SwarmLab, see all the best timelapse videos of slime mold, from the web and from our lab. Episode 3: The inner life of the slime mold Today’s #SlimeLapseGallery features a recent compilation of Physarum timelapse microscopy that I hadn’t seen before, highlighting several features of slime mold behavior, as well as the beauty of the organism itself.... Read more.

Date: March 2, 2015 | Categories: blog • slimelapsegallery •

#SlimeLapseGallery - Episode 2

If you’ve ever watched a slime mold move, you have more patience (and spare time) than I do. If you prefer ‘real action’ over ‘real time’, then #SlimeLapseGallery is the place for you. Brought to you by the SwarmLab, see all the best timelapse videos of slime mold, from the web and from our lab. Episode 2: Outsmarting engineers since 2010 Today’s #SlimeLapseGallery entry continues with another brilliant experiment from Toshi’s lab, this time the brainchild of Atsushi Tero, culminating in an excellent Science paper. A sheet of agar (acting as a moist substrate... Read more.

Date: February 2, 2015 | Categories: blog • slimelapsegallery •

#SlimeLapseGallery - Episode 1

If you’ve ever watched a slime mold move, you have more patience (and spare time) than I do. If you prefer ‘real action’ over ‘real time’, then #SlimeLapseGallery is the place for you. Brought to you by the SwarmLab, see all the best timelapse videos of slime mold, from the web and from our lab. Episode 1: A maze-ing slime mold To start with a classic, we can’t go past this video from Toshiyuki Nakagaki’s lab and ground-breaking Nature paper of 2000. In the setup, a labyrinth maze is installed on an agar substrate by... Read more.

Date: January 2, 2015 | Categories: blog • slimelapsegallery •