People may think of survival as an individual act—every animal (and person) for themselves. But a new study from UCLA suggests that when it comes to facing hardship together, social groups may ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

Studying social behavior is crucial for understanding how certain neuromodulatory pathways—like the serotonin pathway, which influences mood and social interactions—are regulated. Kavita Babu, ...

Group living is common across many species, and group sizes range from small (e.g., the Elephant herd and Lion pride) to very large (e.g., bird flocks or fish schools). Different species evolved ...

Virtual Reality experiments have illuminated the rhythmic glue that could keep animals moving in synchrony. Across nature, animals from swarming insects to herding mammals can organize into seemingly ...

Miniaturization is progressing rapidly in just any field and the trend towards the creation of ever smaller units is also prevalent in the world of robot technology. In the future, minuscule robots ...

We are constantly surrounded by temptations that are not in our best interest. That is, they are often neither in the best interest of us individually (e.g., succumbing to a sugar intake that is ...