Articles for tag: ant colonies, biological computing, collective intelligence, complexity science, swarm behavior

Why Ant Colonies Function Like Supercomputers

Why Ant Colonies Function Like Supercomputers

Gargi Chakravorty

When you think of a supercomputer, you probably imagine rows of powerful processors humming away in a climate-controlled room. Yet nature has been running something remarkably similar for over a hundred million years. Ant colonies demonstrate distributed computing principles that rival our most sophisticated artificial intelligence systems. Nature’s oldest aren’t silicon-based – they’re alive. For ...

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The Ants That Farm Mushrooms Underground

Suhail Ahmed

  They live in darkness, yet their work feeds entire cities of their own making. Deep below forest floors across the Americas, farming ants grow fungi the way we raise crops, tending gardens with a care that feels startlingly familiar. The mystery is how such tiny bodies coordinate climate control, disease management, and supply chains ...