People may think of survival as an individual act—every animal (and person) for themselves. But a new study from UCLA suggests that when it comes to facing hardship together, social groups may ...

There's something magnetic about a group of people looking in the same direction—others will follow their gazes to see what has caught their attention. But is the same true for animals like pigeons?

Opening new possibilities in collective behavior and robotics By turning collective behavior into something that can be decoded, this approach offers practical engineering and scientific benefits. In ...

Microrobots modeled in simulations use sound to coordinate their movements, forming acoustic swarms that navigate and act together with surprising collective intelligence. (Nanowerk News) Animals like ...

Active matter comprises systems in which individual components convert stored or ambient energy into mechanical work, leading to self-driven phenomena and spontaneous organisation. This area of ...

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers have provided evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological cells. They show that a universal feature in the collective behavior emerges in ...

People may think of survival as an individual act—every animal (and person) for themselves. But a new study from UCLA suggests that when it comes to facing hardship together, social groups may ...