Animals are constantly moving to find food, water, suitable habitats, mates and safe places to rest. Because moving requires substantial energy, animals often rely on various biological and behavioral strategies to reduce unnecessary costs while seeking available resources.

Roadmap for animate matter, Volpe, Giorgio, Araújo, Nuno A M, Guix, Maria, Miodownik, Mark, Martin, Nicolas, Alvarez, Laura, Simmchen, Juliane, Leonardo, Roberto Di, Pellicciotta, Nicola, Martinet, Qu...

Collective intelligence and autonomy of robot swarms can be improved by enabling individual robots to become aware that they are the constituent parts of a larger whole and to identify their role with...

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to research on animal collectives, the Royal Society has elected behavioural biologist Iain Couzin as Fellow.

Accumulating information is a critical component of most circuit computations in the brain across species, yet its precise implementation at the synaptic level remains poorly understood. Dissecting su...

Plants communicate, nurture their seedlings, and get stressed.