A new preprint examines how goldfish use two forms of social information—the number of fish in a shoal and how actively they are moving—when deciding which group to join. The work helps expose the local cues through which individual preferences can shape larger-scale group formation and movement.

13-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

This paper proposes “Embodied Collective Intelligence,” where robot teams share world memory, task progress, and skill experience without becoming a centralized super-agent.

03-Jul-2026

Here is a practical engineering use of ant colony optimization in directional drilling mechanics.

03-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

Palladyne AI says its SwarmOS software will be tested with U.S. Army warfighters to coordinate heterogeneous unmanned systems without relying on centralized infrastructure.

25-Jun-2026