Thinks

Loki is a simple simulation of a one-dimensional world populated with simple coloured agents that replicate when they have enough energy. Their colour and ability to acquire energy is inherited from their parent. Over time the evolution of different coloured germlines produces continually interesting and varying patterns.

Invertebrates just got cleverer… paper wasps capable of behavior that resembles logical reasoning.

Transitive inference (”If A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A is greater than C”) problem solving has been demonstrated in vertebrates (monkeys, birds, fish) but not in honey bees (invertebrates). 

Paper wasps can solve a transitive inference problem - something honey bees have not been able to do. Although paper wasps have a similar number of neurons as honey bees, their more complex social behaviour involves dominance hierarchies, so their transitive inference abilities could stem from their need to assess newly encountered social relationships.

First Known Photosynthetic Animal E. chlorotica sea slugs can uptake chloroplasts from the alga Vaucheria litorea via epithelial cells lining the walls of their digestive system which allows them to gain energy from sunlight, like the alga does. To do this they have also needed to incorporate genes from the alga that are required to provide the chloroplasts with essential proteins that they need to function. 

Ant supercolonies can contain thousands of queen ants and cover thousands of square kilometres. Exactly how this has evolved and remains a stable strategy is not known.

Morphology-changing robots. Interesting early steps...

Wireless, although still ‘tethered’ to a laser beam.