Category: Colonial Organisms (Ants, Bees)
Chemical Savants: The Role of Chemistry in Ants’ Survival, Communication and Ecology
Ants, Exoskeleton, Pheromones, Venom, Chitin, Communication, Ecosystem, Defence, Soil
Jung Hao Cau, Luciana Chambilla Pastor, Fatima Janneh, Ya Lin
The Wasp: Physical Analysis of Body and Movement
Wasp flight mechanics; Compound eye structure; Wake capture; Ovipositor adaptation; Adhesive; Clap-and-fling mechanism; Morphological optimization; Environmental factors; Aerodynamic stability; Evolutionary biomechanics
Andrew Habelrih, Eliot Azar, Malak Zakaria
A Physics-Based Investigation of Termite Organization and Behaviour
Termites, Defence Mechanisms, Vibrations, Structural Stability, Material Strength, Thermoregulation, Ventilation, Mound architecture, Mound architecture, Mandibles
Rosalie Beaudin, Naia Kim, Mattias Sucher, Lucy Wiggers
The Physical Basis of Coral Reefs
Maureen Awad, Evan Chow, Luke Gailloux, Rylee McKay, Adrian Yehia
Tiny but Mighty: The Incredible Physics of Bees
Bee, Flight, Dance, Navigation, Electroreception, Thermoregulation, Defence
Tzu-Yu Hung, Alysha Kutuzyan, Katarina Simanic, Steven Yang
The Mechanics of Worker Ants
Ants, Biomechanics, Aggregation
Jung Hao Cau, Luciana Chambilla Pastor, Fatima Janneh, Ya Lin
The Mathematical Organisation of Social Wasps
Nest structure, Population dynamics, Resource optimization, Game theory, Dominance, Reproduction
Eliot Azar, Andrew Habelrih, Malak Zakaria
A Mathematical Approach to Modelling Termite Mound Organization and Population Dynamics
Termites, Mound morphogenesis, Tunneling, Food transportation, Population modelling, Stigmergy
Rosalie Beaudin, Naia Kim, Mattias Sucher, Lucy Wiggers
The Mathematics Behind Coral Reef Structure, Growth, and Survival
Coral population dynamics, Bilateral symmetry, Biradial symmetry, Symmetry, Reaction-diffusion models, Paleozoic corals, Fractal geometry, Hyperbolic geometry, Conservation
Maureen Awad, Evan Chow, Luke Gailloux, Rylee McKay, Adrian Yehia
Euler Who? The Original Optimizers: Heterocephalus glaber and Their Algorithmic Society
Naked mole rat, Graph theory, Optimization, Eusocial, Mating, Algorithm
Clayton Dame, David Bensemana, Lana Habhab
Buzzing Through the Numbers
Bee, Honeycomb, Space optimization, Reproduction, Fibonacci sequence, Labor division
Tzu-Yu Hung, Alysha Kutuzyan, Katarina Simanic, Steven Yang
A Mathematical Approach to Barnacle and Limpet Adaptations
Barnacles, limpets, mathematical patterns, modelling, game theory, and evolutionary pressure.
Laetitia Abdallah, Mohammad Jibran Budullah, Lucas Chan, Ralph El Hajj