Like the collective motions of bird flocks, the patterns result from the concerted interactions of many individual particles without a central coordinator. Credit: Wikipedia. Like the collective ...

Flocks of birds flying in the sky and schools of fish swimming in the water maintain a neat, orderly shape when viewed as a whole, despite the complex movements of individual animals. A research team ...

While sitting on my back porch one day during late afternoon, my leisurely pursuit was interrupted as a large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location. The ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The late Oxford University biologist William D. Hamilton discussed the advantages of ...

Is there math behind flocking birds and schooling fish? Scientists decode the animals’ synchronised behaviour and liken it to atoms in an intricate and orderly lattice ...

(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 ...