Mitigating the adverse effects of climate change requires us, globally, to speed up the energy transition: to decarbonize energy supply while maintaining the security of supply and the affordability ...

Researchers quantified the collective action of small schools of fish using information theory. They found that groups of three act very differently compared with groups of just two. This work may ...

Great discoveries lie at the edge of chaos, and nature provides perhaps the best inspiration for finding order in anarchy. Fish school, birds flock, fireflies sync and ants colonize. This type of ...

Researchers at Seoul National University and Kyung Hee University report a framework to control collective motions, such as ring, clumps, mill, flock, by training a physics-informed AI to learn the ...

Generate three principles of emergent group behavior. Ask students what kind of simple rules the individual animals mentioned in Question 1 might be following as they gather in their groups. What does ...

Tiny, soapy bubbles can reorganize their membranes to let material flow in and out in response to the surrounding environment, according to new work carried out in an international collaboration by ...