Like schools of fish and flocks of birds, our cells can also migrate collectively in coordination with their neighbors. This ...

Iridium oxide is one of the most important—and most problematic—materials in the global push toward clean energy. It is currently the most reliable catalyst used in the conversion of energy to ...

Collective behavior is the spontaneous, temporary, and unstructured behavior of a group in response to the same situation. In the animal kingdom, collective behavior can be observed in flocking birds, ...

New research sheds light on how 'animal personalities' -- inter-individual differences in animal behavior -- can drive the collective behavior and functioning of animal groups such as schools of fish, ...

Thousands of starlings move together to form a cloud-like murmuration. New work from UC Davis and Hokkaido University shows how this kind of collective behavior can be understood based on interactions ...

Researchers used wireless neural recording and imaging devices to 'listen in' on the hippocampal brain activity of groups of Egyptian fruit bats as they flew freely within a large flight room. The ...

When a crowd of passengers on a burning ship jumps overboard, when schoolboys go calmly through a fire drill, when four clubmen stage a drinking spree, when a mob of strikers overturns police cars, ...

Group living is common across many species, and group sizes range from small (e.g., the Elephant herd and Lion pride) to very large (e.g., bird flocks or fish schools). Different species evolved ...

Collective behaviour in animal systems emerges when local interactions among individuals give rise to coordinated group patterns without centralized control. Such phenomena span a wide range of taxa ...

It’s not uncommon to see a flock of birds, startled by some perceived threat, take to the air in a highly coordinated flight. Similar behavior can be observed in schooling fishes where each fish, ...

Ant colonies work without central control. Knowing how they do this might help us understand other systems that have no leader, from brains to the Internet In the 2015 summer blockbuster Ant-Man, the ...