Physicists have solved a long-standing problem involving systems that appear to violate Newton’s third law, such as bird ...

For more than three centuries, physicists have believed in Isaac Newton’s third law—every action ...

Birds in flocks, bacteria and cells: In many collective systems, individual elements respond to only part of their surroundings, seemingly defying Newton's third law of motion—action equals reaction.

Scientists have developed a new theory to explain how systems like bird flocks exhibit non-reciprocal interactions, seemingly ...

Bird flocks, bacterial swarms, and even crowds move according to interaction rules that appear to break one of physics’ most ...

A Dresden physics team working with Roderich Moessner, a founding member of the Würzburg–Dresden Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat, has now developed a theory that makes it possible to describe these ...

A theoretical framework predicts the emergence of non-reciprocal interactions that effectively violate Newton's third law in solids using light, report researchers from Japan. They demonstrate that by ...

Human sperm cells and some microorganisms swim by deforming their bodies in a way that breaks Newton’s third law of motion – and we’re closer to understanding how they do it. The findings could ...