Cellular Automata
In part one of this series, we looked at a simple example of cellular automata in the form of the Game of Life.
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Act I Part 2: The Self-Replicating Machine
In part one of this series, we looked at a simple example of cellular automata in the form of the Game of Life. But these constructs existed before Conway in 1970. Software has been able to reproduce itself for decades. In 1988, the Morris worm spread autonomously through about 6,000 of the roughly 60,000 computers then connected to the Internet, causing widespread disruption.
27-Sep-2026
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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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(See the original demos announcement at the link). We have added more algorithms to the website to try out and tweak.
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Scientists finally measure the individual chemical deposits that build an ant trail
Researchers have directly visualised and measured individual pheromone deposits made by ants, revealing that the chemical building blocks of collective trails are far less uniform than previously assumed.
17-Oct-2026
Read moreCoastal dunes organise themselves through environmental feedback — but local damage can become permanent
Coastal dune systems develop large-scale spatial patterns through feedback between vegetation density and the movement of sand.
17-Oct-2026
Read moreIdentical fish develop different collective personalities
Genetically identical fish can develop strikingly different collective behaviours despite growing up under standardised conditions.
09-Oct-2026
Read moreFor these bacteria, bumping into the crowd is the message
Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria use physical collisions with neighbours as information, dynamically switching between disorder and coordinated movement without chemical signalling.
09-Oct-2026
Read moreElephant choruses may help a herd converge on what to do next
African elephants appear to make their calls more alike as some group conversations unfold, potentially helping a herd coordinate a shared course of action.
09-Oct-2026
Read moreBacterial communities divide the work — then use quorum signals to coordinate it
Engineered bacterial communities can use chemical communication to coordinate a metabolic division of labour that no single strain performs as effectively alone.
09-Oct-2026
Read moreBacteria offer a surprisingly complete blueprint for distributed intelligence
Bacterial collectives combine signalling, division of labour, environmental memory and local decision rules to achieve capabilities unavailable to individual cells.
09-Oct-2026
Read moreA coral reef broadcasts its health — and young animals listen
The collective sounds of a healthy coral reef provide environmental information that influences where young marine organisms settle.
09-Oct-2026
Read moreEven sperm form teams — and evolution keeps rediscovering the idea
Sperm cooperation turns out to be widespread across arthropods rather than an evolutionary curiosity.
02-Oct-2026
Read moreEven microbes at environmental extremes coordinate by counting one another
Extremophile microbes use quorum sensing to coordinate population-level behaviour even under conditions of extreme heat, cold, salinity or acidity.
02-Oct-2026
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