Tag: active matter

Engineers have built a mechatronic metamaterial whose independent vibrations coarsen into a single synchronised rhythm, forming a robotic time crystal ...

New research shows that Pseudomonas aeruginosa senses collisions with neighbouring cells and uses this mechanosensory feedback to actively regulate collective ...

A new review synthesises the biophysics of how snow algae swim, sense and migrate through melting snowpacks, with major implications ...

Experiments and simulations show that the onset of fully developed active turbulence is a genuine non-equilibrium phase transition marked by ...

Researchers have embedded cell-free gene expression inside a microtubule network to create an active material whose flows, buckling, oscillations and ...

A new Perspective argues that electrically and magnetically driven active colloids should be understood as distributed micromachines whose power, sensing, ...

Researchers show that Myxococcus xanthus switches between swarming and rippling through just two mechanisms—local cellular alignment and congestion-triggered reversals.

A new study of swarming bacteria and human bronchial epithelial cells has uncovered a hidden asymmetry in the microscopic events ...

Living systems can perform astonishingly coordinated tasks without a central controller. A flock of birds can turn as one, a ...

From schools of fish and flocks of birds to microscopic particles that assemble, scatter, and move as though they were ...