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The mechanisms behind synchronized hunts in spiders

In nature, entities like cells or organisms like spiders and humans, can interact to generate collective behavior. Among these fascinating behaviors, synchronization is found at all scales of life, from heart tissue where cells beat regularly to assemblies of fireflies that flash in rhythm. Within... click to read more

Violette Chiara | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale (UMR5169), Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Université de Toulouse; Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France; Centro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain

Raphaël Jeanson | Senior Researcher at Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale (UMR5169), Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

cooperation

collective behaviour

self-organization

social spiders

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Sep 28, 2022

Scrambled frog eggs return to life

When you make scrambled eggs for breakfast, you are probably not expecting any signs of life in the resulting mush, let alone development into chicken embryos. Indeed, it seems common sense that living things are organized structures, and once these structures are jumbled up, life... click to read more

Xianrui Cheng | Research Scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

James E. Ferrell, Jr. | Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

self-organization

pattern formation

origin of life

artificial cell

embryonic development

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Aug 31, 2020