Study shows how fracking documentary influenced public perception and political change
Social scientists have long argued documentary films are powerful tools for social change.
Social Sciences
Sep 2, 2015
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News tagged with collective behavior
Being calm is contagious?
Woodlice are able to calm their excited neighbors according to findings made by Pierre Broly and Jean-Louis Deneubourg of the Free Brussels University (Belgium).
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2015
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New study shows the dynamics of active swarms in alternating fields
Researchers from Uppsala University, together with colleagues at University College Dublin, have studied the dynamics of active swarms using computer simulations and experiments on unicellular algae. The team not only found ...
General Physics
Jun 5, 2015
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Video: Framework to characterize the collective behavior of a large number of macroscopic objects
Let's put winter behind us—it's time to think about sand.
General Physics
Apr 6, 2015
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Study follows the rise of individuals with the greatest influence on collective group behavior
Who takes charge during a disaster or at an accident scene? The question has intrigued sociologists since Gustave Le Bon first studied "herd behavior" in nineteenth-century France. The question of an individual's influence ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2015
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Mathematical description of relationship between thickness, temperature, and resistivity could spur advances
MIT researchers have discovered a new mathematical relationship—between material thickness, temperature, and electrical resistance—that appears to hold in all superconductors. They describe their findings in the latest ...
Superconductivity
Dec 17, 2014
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Prehistoric conflict hastened human brain's capacity for collaboration, study says
Warfare not only hastened human technological progress and vast social and political changes, but may have greatly contributed to the evolutionary emergence of humans' high intelligence and ability to work together toward ...
Evolution
Nov 26, 2014
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The altruistic side of aggressive greed: Study explains new twist in group cooperation
In many group-living species, high-rank individuals bully their group-mates to get what they want, but their contribution is key to success in conflict with other groups, according to a study that sheds new light on the evolutionary ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 26, 2014
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Understanding collective animal behavior may be in the eye of the computer
No machine is better at recognizing patterns in nature than the human brain. It takes mere seconds to recognize the order in a flock of birds flying in formation, schooling fish, or an army of a million marching ants. But ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 16, 2014
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For the first time, researchers observe collective spin dynamics of ultra-cold fermions with large spins
Understanding collective behavior of ultra-cold quantum gases is of great interest since it is intimately related to many encountered systems in nature such as human behavior, swarms of birds, traffic jam, sand dunes, neutron ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 13, 2014
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