For the past three decades Deborah Gordon has devoted herself to studying ant colonies in the Arizona desert. Although her chosen subject – the red harvester ant – isn’t much to look at, when they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robyn Williams: A new book called Algorithms:Machines of the Mind has just been published at Bond University in Queensland where Marcus Randall is Professor of IT. He uses algorithms to look at ...

Fleets of commercial vehicles that operate in large towns and cities could halve their emissions and better meet clean air targets using a new technology developed by Aston University researchers, ...