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Picture a one celled creature navigating a complex maze quicker than some of the planet’s most powerful computers. It’s science fiction, but this is precisely the genius of a slime mold. Those stupid ...

Slime molds, which live in soil, are truly ancient animals. They arrived on land close to a billion years ago and may well have colonized continents that were then home only to films of bacteria.