In a recent conversation with Peter Gloor at MIT, we talk about swarm creativity, COINs, AI and a collective human-AI future.

Symbiotic relationships between species are both common and incredible, including those between ants and these four insects, ...

An ant carries an unfortunate honeybee it scavenged back to the colony to feed a growing brood. The worker’s strength is sizable—enough to transport many times its body weight using its mandibles.

A (still growing) paper list of Evolutionary Computation (EC) published in some (rather all) top-tier (and also EC-focused) journals and conferences. For EC-focused publications, only ...

Ants — yes, ants — could protect apples, nuts, cocoa, and other beloved crops from disease and climate change.

A Weaver Colony resident named Iftikhar has been apprehended by Pakistan's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) for impersonating a terrorist group member to extort money from a local individual, ...

Living with the enemy The jumping spider Phintella piatensis hangs out with Asian weaver ants ... By building specialized nests near the ants' colonies (thickly woven, cocoon-like structures ...

Renée Zellweger will go anywhere for love. The two-time Oscar winner offered a rare glimpse into her relationship with Ant Anstead, sharing that she planted roots outside of Hollywood to stay ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have developed to ...

Parasitic crickets, no larger than a grain of rice, have perfected a way of surviving within the heart of ant colonies. These master infiltrators don’t just survive – they thrive in what should be a ...