It doesn’t have a brain and survives on rotting vegetable matter — but it could offer valuable insights into city planning, according to a team of University of Toronto Engineering researchers.

True brilliance is always found in the most unsuspecting places, like who would think a slime mould could design a railroad? The world of microbiology is like an entire other planet that exists ...

Step aside, artificially intelligent robots: An ancient type of slime is proving adept at creating efficient transit networks, threatening the jobs of transportation infrastructure engineers ...