The ability of single active filaments to cluster smaller particles could inspire new materials for building soft robots that perform biological functions.

This commentary explores how collective intelligence arises from local interactions in animal groups and how these principles inform the design of swarm robotic systems, addressing the challenge of ac...

A collection of mutually repelling objects can be forced into the same arrangement, whether they are magnets, soap bubbles, or hard spheres.

The past decade has seen unprecedented growth in active matter and autonomous biomaterials research, yielding diverse classes of materials capable of flowing, contracting, bundling, de-mixing, and coa...

Engineering scholars at Brown University uncovered unexpected dynamics in how organic particulates sink in the ocean, a process that plays a key role in marine nutrient cycling.

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A physics-based model that captures the complex dynamics of tenpin bowling could help players to increase their chances of scoring a strike.

Collective motion, which is ubiquitous in nature, has traditionally been explained by “self-propelled particle” models from theoretical physics. Here we show, through field, lab, and virtual reality e...

This is the playlist for an applied math course on asymptotics and perturbation methods, offered by Prof. Steven Strogatz at Cornell University in Spring 202...

Crocodile head scales self-organize through purely mechanical compressive skin folding rather than a patterning process controlled by gene interactions.

Scientists say they’ve worked out how the plant can fire its seeds up to almost 40 feet.