Flocking birds and schools of fish are a familiar sight. While previous research has uncovered the broad dynamics driving ...

A study by NYU mathematicians shows that flocking birds and schooling fish move like soft crystalline materials.

Bird flocks, bacterial swarms, and even crowds move according to interaction rules that appear to break one of physics’ most ...

For more than three centuries, physicists have believed in Isaac Newton’s third law—every action ...

When animals move together in flocks, herds, or schools, neural dynamics in their brain become synchronized through shared ways of representing space, a new study by researchers from the University of ...

Flocking animals, such as hundreds of birds sweeping across the sky in unison, are a mesmerizing sight. But how does their collective motion – seen in many species, from swarming locusts to schooling ...