synchronization

Researchers use networks to model the dynamics of coupled systems ranging from food webs to neurological processes. Those models originally focused on pairwise interactions, or behaviors that emerge from interactions between two entities.…

Accurately moving to a musical beat was thought to be a skill innately unique to humans. However, new research now shows that rats also have this ability. The optimal tempo for nodding along was found to depend on the time constant in the…

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin have unlocked the secret that explains how large groups of individual "oscillators" -- from flashing fireflies to cheering crowds, and from ticking clocks to clicking metronomes -- tend to synchronise…