scientists are racing single-celled organisms like cancer cells and slime molds through microscopic mazes along paths the width of a human hair. WSJ’s Robert Lee Hotz reports.

“It’s a very important and interesting study,” Stuart Newman, a cell biologist at New York Medical College who was not involved in the study, tells The Scientist, “It’s a new phenomenon for ...

Despite their simple structure, slime molds exhibit behaviors that suggest a form of primitive intelligence ... Instead, it’s the result of a simple but powerful decision-making loop honed by ...

You can learn a lot from a little slime mold. For Nate Cira ... creating a branch-like structure that drives the movement of cells—and, on a more conceptual level, the Nokia Corporation.