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Honeybee groups carry distinct chemical signatures used to distinguish nestmates from outsiders, but those signatures change when groups are brought together.

This is a part one of a four part series of emergent microbial communication. “Quorum sensing”, “quorum quenching”. Cool words, what are we talking about here?

A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognise him. He spent two years design an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not erase memories formed during the caterpillar stage.

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.

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.

Researchers combined more than 16,000 soil samples with predictive models to map the global density of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks.

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.

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

Here is a practical engineering use of ant colony optimization in directional drilling mechanics. The paper maps bending-energy minimization to artificial ant exploration and reports a 55.

(See the original demos announcement at the link). We have added more algorithms to the website to try out and tweak.