When a crowd of passengers on a burning ship jumps overboard, when schoolboys go calmly through a fire drill, when four clubmen stage a drinking spree, when a mob of strikers overturns police cars, ...

Collective behavior is the spontaneous, temporary, and unstructured behavior of a group in response to the same situation. In the animal kingdom, collective behavior can be observed in flocking birds, ...

New research indicates that perceiving one’s social group as possessing inner spiritual strength can drive members to extreme ...

Birds flock. Fish gather in schools. Bees swarm. Even amoebae clump together in mystifyingly clever constellations. Scientists have long wondered what is happening at the cellular and molecular level ...

A study recently published in Science has found that classical models of collective behavior fail to explain the mechanisms driving desert locust swarms—an ecological phenomenon that affects millions ...

Thousands of starlings move together to form a cloud-like murmuration. New work from UC Davis and Hokkaido University shows how this kind of collective behavior can be understood based on interactions ...

Nature is full of examples of large-scale collective behavior; humans also exhibit this behavior, most notably in pelotons, the mass of riders in bicycle races. Using aerial video footage of bicycle ...

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has a new four-legged addition to its family: a 160-pound quadruped named Spot—and dude is impressive. In a short video posted yesterday, the Google-owned company ...