Groups of animals inhabit vastly different sensory worlds, or umwelten, which shape
fundamental aspects of their behaviour. Yet the sensory ecology of species is rarely …

Swarms of ground-based robots are presently limited to relatively simple environments,
which we attribute in part to the lack of locomotor capabilities needed to traverse complex …

Complex systems research is becoming ever more important in both the natural and social
sciences. It is commonly implied that there is such a thing as a complex system, different …

Human brain size nearly quadrupled in the six million years since Homo last shared a
common ancestor with chimpanzees, but human brains are thought to have decreased in …

Aggregation is a common behavior by which groups of organisms arrange into cohesive
groups. Whether suspended in the air (like honey bee clusters), built on the ground (such as …

Many astonishing biological collective behaviors exist in nature, and artificial microrobotic
swarms have been developed by emulating these scenarios. However, these microswarms …

Microbot collectives can cooperate to accomplish complex tasks that are difficult for a single
individual. However, various force-induced microbot collectives maintained by weak …

Honeybee Apis mellifera swarms form large congested tree-hanging clusters made solely of
bees attached to each other. How these structures are maintained under the influence of …

Fundamental knowledge gaps exist about the plasticity of cells from adult soma and the
potential diversity of body shape and behavior in living constructs derived from genetically …

Neuromodulators are conserved across insect taxa, but how biogenic amines and their
receptors in ancestral solitary forms have been co-opted to control behaviors in derived …