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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Cats May Maintain Persistent Identity Signals in Their Urine
Researchers have identified 13 branched-chain fatty acids in cat urine whose relative proportions differ among individuals yet remain comparatively stable within the same cat.
20-Aug-2026
Read moreFish Treat Neighbours' Stillness as Evidence That Danger Is Absent
A theoretical study of collective escape proposes that animals can improve both speed and accuracy by treating an undisturbed neighbour as negative evidence about a possible threat.
20-Aug-2026
Read moreHoneybee-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
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