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    Ton van GestelFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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    Why do birds flock? Shedding light on collective motions in heterogeneous populations
        
    
Leiden physicists Alexandre Morin and Samadarshi Maity study self-organisation and flocking phenomena. They shed light on flocking, which helps to understand how it is possible that birds in a flock don't collide. With plastic microbeads, they create an experimental setup and they developed a mathematical…