by Devac

The real title is "Biologist Blowing Our Minds," and screw that. Just read the thing.

If it’s sensitive to vibrations, does it react to music?

We grew the Physarum on a plate, and the plate was sitting on a speaker, and my student was driving the speaker with her iPhone. And we could see that for certain types of music, it would grow quite differently than for others. Some of them, it grew very nicely. Some of them, it just didn’t grow at all. It just really hated it; it just hunkered down.