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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

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

Researchers studying sperm whales around Dominica are beginning to connect the animals’ acoustic conversations with their subsequent collective behaviour.

02-Nov-2026

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

A fish school may achieve coordinated movement without each fish tracking a crowd of neighbours.

31-Oct-2026

A simulated lunar robot swarm has independently developed two cooperative survival behaviours resembling those of emperor penguins.

30-Oct-2026

A distributed drone-search framework addresses the difficulty of maintaining coordinated flight when satellite navigation is unavailable.

30-Oct-2026

Researchers argue that decentralised AI societies face a coordination problem fundamentally different from ordinary message delivery.

30-Oct-2026

Researchers have demonstrated a decentralised security mechanism that allows cooperating robots to reject malicious information while continuing to trust legitimate neighbours.

28-Oct-2026

A new mathematical analysis establishes a surprising equivalence between collective decision-making in bee swarms and reinforcement learning.

28-Oct-2026

Researchers have developed a method for robotic swarms to construct collective shapes through local interactions rather than a predefined deployment-wide attachment list.

28-Oct-2026

Networks of autonomous language-model agents can develop polarised social structures through repeated local interactions, without being instructed to form opposing groups.

28-Oct-2026