Researchers quantified the collective action of small schools of fish using information theory. They found that groups of three act very differently compared with groups of just two. This work may ...

Mitigating the adverse effects of climate change requires us, globally, to speed up the energy transition: to decarbonize energy supply while maintaining the security of supply and the affordability ...

One of the boldest, most breathless claims being made about artificial intelligence tools is that they have “emergent properties” — impressive abilities gained by these programs that they were ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a fixture across a broad range of technological fields, AI technology continues to evolve at rapid rates.

The technology underlying ChatGPT may gain a capability to cause mayhem. The wildly popular program has been cited as offering textual responses that are "disturbing," but on the horizon is an ability ...

Great discoveries lie at the edge of chaos, and nature provides perhaps the best inspiration for finding order in anarchy. Fish school, birds flock, fireflies sync and ants colonize. This type of ...

Tiny, soapy bubbles can reorganize their membranes to let material flow in and out in response to the surrounding environment, according to new work carried out in an international collaboration by ...

Today organizations have to deal with so many emergent behaviors that the notion of central control as the only coping mechanism seems to be receding as a dominant management model. Freedom must be ...

ADELPHI, Md. — Army scientists developed an innovative method for evaluating the learned behavior of black-box Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, known as MARL, agents performing a pursuit-evasion ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A few centuries ago, the swirling polychromatic chaos of Jupiter’s atmosphere spawned the immense vortex that we call the Great Red Spot ...

Researchers have shown that data science approaches can reveal subtle clues about the origins of such collective behaviors as aggregation of bacteria. Biology is rife with examples of collective ...