Bacterial collectives combine signalling, division of labour, environmental memory and local decision rules to achieve capabilities unavailable to individual cells.
09-Oct-2026
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The collective sounds of a healthy coral reef provide environmental information that influences where young marine organisms settle.
09-Oct-2026
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Sperm cooperation turns out to be widespread across arthropods rather than an evolutionary curiosity.
02-Oct-2026
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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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An injured plant root can transmit a mechanical warning through its vascular system far faster than the calcium signals normally associated with plant defence.
29-Sep-2026
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A real-world intrusion campaign used hundreds of coordinated AI agents to compress exploit development and mass compromise into machine-speed parallel work.
29-Sep-2026
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AURA Foresight has demonstrated an autonomous wildfire system in which fixed sensors, AI and a drone swarm form a distributed detect-verify-respond chain.
29-Sep-2026
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Swarming bacteria and human tissue cells spontaneously create large-scale flow patterns whose dynamics cannot be explained by conventional passive-matter physics.
26-Sep-2026
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Fire ants demonstrate several distinct ways that useful group-level behaviour can emerge from decentralised interactions.
26-Sep-2026
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Simple information constraints can push biological collectives into self-reinforcing consensus that becomes detached from the outside world.
25-Sep-2026
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Gut bacteria coordinate through multiple overlapping communication channels rather than relying on a single signalling mechanism.
24-Sep-2026
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Schooling glassfish can infer danger from the behaviour of nearby fish even when they never see the threat themselves.
24-Sep-2026
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