SLIME
Physarum polycephalum · specimen 980

You are one cell. No brain, no neurons, no centre — just several million nuclei in a shared cytoplasm and a very good sense of where the food is. The laboratory has some questions. Answer them from the inside.

Experiment schedule0 / 5 logged

Objective
Dish conditions
Motor control
hold left / dragemit a growth cue — the exploratory front flows toward it hold right / shiftretract — pull cytoplasm back out of a region spacehold the clock Rreset the dish
hold / dragemit a growth cue — the exploratory front flows toward your finger RETRACT padswitch the verb, then hold to pull cytoplasm back out of a region two fingersretract without switching pads — a second finger flips that drag HOLD / RESETthe buttons under the dish stop the clock and restart the plate
Biomass0
Culture held
Hold to lay a growth cue · right-click / shift to retract · space pause · R reset Hold or drag on the dish to lay a growth cue · tap RETRACT (or use two fingers) to pull back · Hold / Reset below

Observations