Midge Swarms: First Biological Group to Exhibit Material Properties? (1 of 1) (VIDEO)

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Reconstructed positions of individual midges (black dots) in a swarm viewed from the side. A swarm marker (red line), which is a black square plate, oscillates back and forth below the swarm resulting in a travelling wave that travels upward through the swarm away from the marker. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 10th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. van der Vaart at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Mechanical spectroscopy of insect swarms."

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Kasper van der Vaart

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