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 ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert ...

Generate three principles of emergent group behavior. Ask students what kind of simple rules the individual animals mentioned in Question 1 might be following as they gather in their groups. What does ...

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 ...

Researchers at Seoul National University and Kyung Hee University report a framework to control collective motions, such as ring, clumps, mill, flock, by training a physics-informed AI to learn the ...

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 ...

A long-standing physics mystery has been solved with the discovery of emergent photon-like behavior inside a strange quantum ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...