Archives of November 2010

1 Nov 2010

PNAS: Leadership, collective behavior, and the evolution of migration

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Migration is a remarkable and widespread form of collective motion that is observed over a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. Often migratory individuals face the challenge of tracking long range, noisy environmental cues in order to reach suitable habitats. Detecting directional information, however, may come at a cost. This raises a number of [...]


13 Oct 2010

Iain Couzin among the 2010 “Brilliant 10″

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Iain has been named this year one of the “Brilliant 10″ by the magazine Popular Science. The “Brilliant 10″ are 10 young scientists and researchers who “are dreaming up solutions to some of the world’s most vexing challenges”. They are selected each year by the people at Popular Science among hundreds of nominees.
The article dedicated to [...]