How Local Flight Decisions Become the Global Geometry of a Flock
Bird flocks achieve coordinated flight through local interactions among individuals rather than a leader directing the group’s movement.
07-Sep-2026
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Roots Detect an Injured Neighbour Within One Second
Plant roots can detect damage to a neighbouring plant almost immediately and redirect their own growth away from the disturbance.
03-Sep-2026
Read moreFish Change Their Collective Rules When Visibility Fails
Three-spined sticklebacks compensate for murky water by becoming more socially coordinated rather than continuing to use the same shoaling rules.
03-Sep-2026
Read moreA New Method Extracts the Hidden Interaction Geometry of Animal Swarms
Researchers have developed a way to infer which neighbours an animal is actually responding to directly from collective-movement data.
03-Sep-2026
Read moreScientists enlist AI to interpret meaning of barks
Researchers from the University of Michigan set out to discover whether scientists could get round that lack of data by piggy-backing on research carried out on humans.
01-Sep-2026
Read moreFish Schools Use a Fast Hydrodynamic Channel When the Group Suddenly Accelerates
Fish appear to switch communication channels according to how urgently their school is moving.
27-Aug-2026
Read moreFish Schools May Form by Copying One Neighbour at a Time
Glassfish appear to coordinate by copying one nearby neighbour at discrete moments rather than averaging the movements of the whole local group.
27-Aug-2026
Read moreAnimals Can Leave Messages in Water and Air Without Intending to Communicate
A new framework proposes that moving animals can coordinate through the fluid disturbances they leave behind.
27-Aug-2026
Read moreCats 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
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