Combining ideas inspired by ant colonies and flocks of birds may hold the key to unlocking more effective artificial intelligence, according to a researcher at Missouri S&T. "With the way AI ...

Imagine trying to build a house without a blueprint, find a shortcut through an unfamiliar city without a map, or govern a large organization with no leaders and no meetings. It sounds impossible. Yet ...

Abstract: Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a heuristic algorithm that has been widely used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. However, determining heuristic measures and initial pheromones ...

Deep in the rainforests of Central and South America, one of nature’s most impressive phenomena unfolds daily as millions of army ants embark on coordinated hunting raids that can stretch over 100 ...

A few months ago, I awoke to find a streak spanning the length of my kitchen wall that looked like it had been drawn there with thick black crayon. This was confounding, given that I live alone, save ...

The behavior prevents fungal pathogens from spreading through the colony Researchers call it "altruistic disease signaling" that protects the ant superorganism In a rare example of biological altruism ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...