Dear scientists: Follow the ants

Six cross-disciplinary projects to advance fundamental understanding of how neural systems adapt to today’s rapid environmental changes have won awards in the second year of Scialog: Neurobiology and ...

Engineers have uncovered the mathematical rules fireflies follow to sync up their flashes.

A new study shows how fireflies speed up or slow down their flashing to sync up with other insects, creating a beautiful and other-wordly light show.

Dr. Orit Peleg seeks to understand the behavior of disordered living systems by merging tools from physics, biology, engineering, and computer science. At the…

Honeybees often need to build their comb under conditions that prevent a regular hexagonal lattice. This study uses 3D printed panels and X-ray microscopy to explore their adaptive process when differ...

This review traces how ideas from statistical physics evolved into foundational models of neural computation, shaping modern AI and culminating in the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Pesticides, habitat loss, and light pollution are threatening firefly populations worldwide, but even in urban areas, some lightning bugs continue to shine.

Before the invention of the microscope and the field of entomology emerged, Joris Hoefnagel devoted himself to the natural world.

What blinking bugs reveal about synchrony in the universe

New research uses firefly flashing patterns to identify species and what they’re communicating.

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Scientific Reports - Embracing firefly flash pattern variability with data-driven species classification