communication

A puzzling new study finds that ants possess a higher collective intelligence than humans.

Even bees need dance lessons! Bees use their “waggle dance” to point each other toward food, and they need lessons to perform it properly.

Despite not having been able to talk for 15 years, a paralyzed man can now communicate using electrodes implanted in his brain.

Honeybees relay chemical messages to alert other worker bees in a colony to the queen’s location.

Hannah Smith is a Biology PhD student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Hannah is interested in the biological pathways that regulate aging, and whether we can target these pathways to make people healthier in old age (but she’s currently…

Researchers implemented an artificial pheromone system to allow robots to communicate within a swarm.

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is home to a dizzying array of life, from colorful poisonous frogs to deadly jaguars. One resident is the Araguaian river dolphin, which was only recently discovered by scientists in 2014. Unlike playful ocean dolphins, the…

by Marina Watanabe I once attended a lecture by a famed physicist, and left convinced that physics was the biggest sham in the universe (or multiverse, if you believe him). At one point, the professor answered an audience member’s question by…