Inspired by the collective dynamics of bacteria like E. coli and Bacillus subtilis, researchers at the University of Twente ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A newly published perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modelling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, ...

Scientists from the Skoltech Space Center (SSC) have developed nanosatellite interaction algorithms for scientific measurements using a tetrahedral orbital formation of CubeSats that exchange data and ...

The same neurons that help bats navigate through space may also help them navigate collective social environments, finds a new study published today in the journal Nature. Many mammals — including ...