Scientists have developed a new theory to explain how systems like bird flocks exhibit non-reciprocal interactions, seemingly ...
Flocking birds and schools of fish are a familiar sight. While previous research has uncovered the broad dynamics driving ...
When a flock of birds wheels across the sky, the movement appears effortless. Hundreds of individuals change direction within ...
Bird flocks, bacterial swarms, and even crowds move according to interaction rules that appear to break one of physics’ most ...
Birds in flocks, bacteria and cells: In many collective systems, individual elements respond to only part of their ...
Key findings show that MSBF species diversity peaks at low latitudes and declines toward higher latitudes, consistent with the classic latitudinal diversity gradient. Globally, β diversity is ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joan Strassmann, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) As I walked ...