When Should a Drone Tell Its Neighbours What It Knows?
Researchers have developed a decentralised control framework in which autonomous drones communicate selectively rather than continuously.
12-Nov-2026
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Act II Part 4: When Patterns Become Things
In the Cellular Automata series, we have completed Act I, which was about The Rules of the World. In Act II, we will look at What the Rules Can Become. Sometimes the thing that moves is the pattern, not its parts.
08-Nov-2026
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Fish Have Evolved Collective Behaviour Again and Again. Why Do They Keep Abandoning It?
A large evolutionary study reveals that collective schooling is neither a rare innovation nor an irreversible evolutionary achievement.
12-Nov-2026
Read moreA Robot Swarm That Decides Who Can Join
Researchers have demonstrated a decentralised approach to governing robot swarms whose membership can change during operation.
10-Nov-2026
Read moreCellular Automata
Act I Part 1: The Game with No Player The adaptive-emergent blog has over 100 posts on swarm and natural intelligence: communication even though some of these describe the most basic microbial life. In many cases we can model this behaviour as algorithms: what appears as intention is in fact mathematics. In this series on cellular automata, we delve deeper into the numbers.
Updated 08-Nov-2026
View Complete SeriesEntangled Intelligences: Exploring the Boundaries Between Biological and Artificial Minds
The Long Now Foundation is hosting a public event exploring intelligence across biological, synthetic and interspecies systems.
04-Nov-2026
Read moreWhen Different Bird Species Combine Their Warnings, the Whole Community Benefits
Mixed-species bird communities can produce more useful predator warnings when different species contribute complementary information.
03-Nov-2026
Read moreThe Collective Mind: Iain Couzin Explores How Nature Makes Decisions Without a Leader
Collective-behaviour researcher Iain D. Couzin will deliver a public lecture in Geneva on 4 November 2026 examining how groups of animals coordinate and make decisions.
03-Nov-2026
Read moreWhy a Thousand Basking Sharks Might Gather in One Place
Basking sharks are usually solitary, yet sometimes gather in enormous groups, and a new model suggests that neither food nor social attraction alone adequately explains why.
02-Nov-2026
Read moreThe Hidden Intelligence of Vegetation Patterns in Drylands
The distinctive patches and bands of vegetation found in drylands may help ecosystems withstand drought, but their relationship with plant evolution is more complicated than expected.
02-Nov-2026
Read moreListening for Collective Decisions in Sperm Whale Conversations
Researchers studying sperm whales around Dominica are beginning to connect the animals’ acoustic conversations with their subsequent collective behaviour.
02-Nov-2026
Read moreISMSI 2027: Swarm Intelligence Research Heads to Ho Chi Minh City
The eleventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics & Swarm Intelligence is scheduled for 23–25 April 2027 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
01-Nov-2026
Read moreOne Neighbour at a Time: The Surprisingly Simple Rule Behind Fish Schools
A fish school may achieve coordinated movement without each fish tracking a crowd of neighbours.
31-Oct-2026
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