Think twice about eliminating those pesky ants at your next family picnic. Their behavior may hold the key to reinventing how engineering materials ...

Commercial vehicle fleets operating in large towns and cities could halve their emissions and better meet clean air targets using technology inspired by the behaviour of ants. The software developed ...

Think twice about eliminating those pesky ants at your next family picnic. Their behavior may hold the key to reinventing how engineering materials, traffic control and multi-agent robots are made and ...

Ant algorithms A species of ant could lend important clues to solving problems in telephone networks, traffic circulation and computer networks. An international team of scientists, who have been ...

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Engineers sometimes turn to nature for inspiration. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Associate Professor Saket Navlakha and research scientist ...

Scientists found that ants and other natural systems use optimization algorithms similar to those used by engineered systems, including the Internet. These algorithms invest incrementally more ...

Engineers sometimes turn to nature for inspiration. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Associate Professor Saket Navlakha and research scientist Jonathan Suen found that adjustment algorithms—the same ...