Cats are curious, observant, and surprisingly clever when it comes to navigating their surroundings. Many feline parents have seen their pets figure out how to open doors, reach hidden treats, or ...

Cells are particularly good at solving mazes, according to a new study, which demonstrates how they are able to navigate long and complicated routes through the body using self-generated ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the extraordinary cognitive abilities of single-celled organisms that navigate intricate labyrinths ...

Genetically engineered bacteria, rigged up as a distributed computing system, might help realize synthetic biology’s loftier goals. E. coli thrives in our guts, sometimes to unfortunate effect, and it ...

An international team of scientists have discovered that soap could be important to helping our understanding of complex systems in the human body, such as lungs, and improving therapies for ...

D. discoideum solving a representation of the maze from Hampton Court Palace. (Bottom) Cells sensing a shortcut using the self-generated gradient and selecting a new minimal route. Cells enter from ...