A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

Cognitive function requires the coordination of neural activity across many scales, from
neurons and circuits to large-scale networks. As such, it is unlikely that an explanatory …

Bacteria are among the oldest and most abundant species on Earth. Bacteria successfully
colonize diverse habitats and play a significant role in the oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen …

Locomotion and transport of microorganisms in fluids is an essential aspect of life. Search
for food, orientation toward light, spreading of off-spring, and the formation of colonies are …

The collective behaviors of animals, from schooling fish to packing wolves and flocking
birds, display plenty of fascinating phenomena that result from simple interaction rules …

The bulk motion of nuclear matter at the ultrahigh temperatures created in heavy ion
collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider is well …

Animals in groups touch each other, move in paths that cross, and interact in complex ways.
Current video tracking methods sometimes switch identities of unmarked individuals during …

Synchronization of neural activity across brains–Interpersonal Neural Synchrony (INS)–is
emerging as a powerful marker of social interaction that predicts success of multi-person …

We study experimentally and numerically a (quasi-) two-dimensional colloidal suspension of
self-propelled spherical particles. The particles are carbon-coated Janus particles, which are …

Spontaneous formation of colonies of bacteria or flocks of birds are examples of self-
organization in active living matter. Here, we demonstrate a form of self-organization from …