Quorum Sensing
Part 4: The dangling conversation In the previous article, we saw bacterial populations defend themselves collectively. Cyanobacteria formed protective flocs, while dying E.
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Part 1: From Little Things Big Things Grow
This is a part one of a four part series of emergent microbial communication.
19-Jul-2026
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Algorithms on Display
(See the original demos announcement at the link). We have added more algorithms to the website to try out and tweak.
View seriesArtificial vs Natural Intelligence
Over this 7-part series, we’ve explored how natural systems — ants, bees, birds, and brains — solve problems through emergence, not instruction.
View seriesAgentic Swarms - Lessons from Nature for Enterprise AI
A great article to capture the principles we use at adaptive-emergent. Lessons forgotten in the cloud.
08-Jun-2026
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Honeybee-Style Inhibition Makes Robot Swarms Better Decision Makers
To operate autonomously, minimal robot swarms must make timely and reliable collective decisions despite noisy individual sensing and severe constraints on communication, computation, and memory.
18-Aug-2026
Read moreYoung Finches Discover Structure in Song Through Statistical Learning
Researchers studying Bengalese finches found that learned birdsong develops statistical structure resembling properties of human language.
17-Aug-2026
Read moreBees and Flowers Harness Static Electricity to Create Pollen
Bees and flowering plants share one of nature’s most elegant and essential symbiotic relationships.
17-Aug-2026
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Watching Information Ripple Through a Fish School
This study uses a conditioned escape response to follow how information propagates through schooling fish after selected individuals respond to a threat cue.
13-Aug-2026
Read moreStingless Bees Show How Spatial Cues Stabilise Colony Traffic
An RFID study of stingless bees found that seemingly minor environmental cues strongly affected how reliably returning foragers identified their own colonies.
13-Aug-2026
Read moreSchooling Fish Selectively Filter Social Information
Researchers used a closed-loop biohybrid system in which robotic agents interacted dynamically with schooling fish, allowing them to probe how individuals respond to neighbours rather than merely observe naturally occurring schools.
13-Aug-2026
Read moreOne Ant Can Trigger a Colony-Wide State Change
A model grounded in observations of ant colonies suggests that synchronized bursts of activity can begin with a single active worker.
13-Aug-2026
Read moreNoise May Help Hold Insect Swarms Together
A theoretical model of flying insect swarms proposes acoustic interaction as a local communication mechanism, with each insect attracted toward a weighted mean field generated by nearby swarm members.
13-Aug-2026
Read moreHow Simple Thresholds Turn Birdsong into a Collective Wave
A mathematical model of the dawn chorus shows how synchronized singing can emerge without central coordination.
13-Aug-2026
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