A team of researchers with members from several countries working together in Rome, Italy, has come up with a new explanation of how it is that starlings are able to fly in a flock in a way that makes ...

Why is a flock of starlings like a glass of water? The answer is that both are complex systems with many parts acting together as one. The Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi has ...

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A multidisciplinary, multi-institutional team of researchers in the U.S. has found that starlings that fly in a follower position expend 25% less energy than when they fly solo. In their study, ...

The same group previously described aspects of starling flocking with equations used to describe avalanches. The birds’ aerial formations don’t just transcend biology, but span multiple physical ...

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Starling murmurations are some of nature’s eeriest and most impressive displays. But something about the in-flight behavior of this geometrically synched flock in Scotland is particularly transfixing.