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A slime mould lays out a network

Jeff Jones’s model (2010): nine thousand particles sense the trail ahead, turn toward the strongest and leave their own. The algorithm Burchett and Elek used to recover the filaments of the cosmic web works the same way.

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The Celestial Code · Chapter 2

Twenty-Seven Zeros

Let’s start with an uncomfortable question: why does the Universe look like a brain? Indeed looks like — with all the statistical rigor that modern science can muster. Vazza and Feletti were far from the first to notice. The visual resemblance between microphotographs of neural…

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