To Which Quorum Should a Bacterium Listen? In the first article on microbial communication, we saw how bacteria release chemical signals that accumulate as a population grows. When a signal crosses a threshold, many cells change behaviour together, without a leader directing them.

30-Jul-2026

Greater Japanese horseshoe bats gradually converge on a shared echolocation frequency after unfamiliar individuals join a colony. Instead of separating their signals into individual channels, lower-frequency bats shift upward until colony members preserve a common clutter-free band in which echoes from fluttering prey remain detectable.

27-Jul-2026

This is a part one of a four part series of emergent microbial communication.

19-Jul-2026

A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognise him. He spent two years design an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not erase memories formed during the caterpillar stage.

18-Jul-2026

Researchers analysing 1,245 natural vocal interactions found that wild common marmosets use flexible turn-taking, matched call-response sequences, brief pauses, and very little overlap across both within-group and intergroup exchanges.

12-Jul-2026

Researchers combined more than 16,000 soil samples with predictive models to map the global density of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks.

11-Jul-2026

Long before the dawn of modern parenting, animals laid eggs and moved on, leaving their progeny to fend for themselves. Now, a study published in Nature uncovers one of the elegant ways that evolution transformed neglect into nurture.

11-Jul-2026

(See the original demos announcement at the link).

28-Jun-2026

Pentest Swarm AI uses a shared blackboard, pheromone-weighted findings, and decentralized agent triggers to let attack paths emerge instead of following a fixed pipeline.

28-Jun-2026

This funding call frames AI safety as a population-level problem involving collusion, cascading failures, emergent communication, and collective capabilities.

26-Jun-2026