How Slime Mold Is Tackling Mysteries of Cosmology | SciShow News

We might be able to use slime molds to help predict the shape of matter in the universe, and the Rosetta mission may have figured out why many comets seem to be missing a bunch of nitrogen. Check out the SciShow Pin of the Month here! https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow/products/scishow-pin-of-the-month-pioneer-4-march Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0352-4 https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4201/ch3-3.htm https://astronomy.com/news/2020/03/slime-mold-helps-astronomers-map-the-universes-dark-matter https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/03/cosmic-web.html https://voicecup.com/pronunciation/59b0f52d4bbeb47fc14b29b8/pronunciation-a-slime-mold-Physarum-polycephalum https://www.livescience.com/64218-slime-mold-hunts-prey-gif.html http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/03/Ammonium_salts_found_on_Rosetta_s_comet%20/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237212-comet-67p-is-hiding-nitrogen-that-could-solve-a-solar-system-mystery/ http://www.ekaterina-smirnova.com/blog/2016/7/25/pronouncing-67pchuryumov-gerasimenko#:~:text= https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/bf8002d0-2582-48a1-820f-8e79d056faed/files/ssr195-part-4.pdf Image Sources: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10118 https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/observatories/satellite/webb/galaxies.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cosmic_web.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/slime-mold-simulations-used-to-map-dark-matter-holding-universe-together https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12656 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/interstellar-crossing-the-cosmic-void https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/hst_img_20080520.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Physarum_polycephalum_plasmodium.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Physarum_polycephalum.jpg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/19601.php?from=152383 https://vimeo.com/231167191 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Physarum_polycephalum.gif https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/news/clumpy_darkmatter.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosetta_spacecraft_model.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comet_67P_on_19_September_2014_NavCam_mosaic.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CHASING_A_COMET_-_The_Rosetta_Mission.webm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosetta_-_antena_close-up.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:67P-C-G_-_March_28_2015_(32370930490).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:67P-C-G_-_May_2_2015_(32730086746).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cumulative-absorption-spectrum-hubble-telescope.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emission_spectrum-Fe.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spectrum.svg