Why is a flock of starlings like a glass of water? The answer is that both are complex systems with many parts acting together as one. The Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi has ...

It's a safe assumption that the average person on the street has never heard of spin glass and couldn't explain what it is. That shouldn't scare casual readers away from a "In a Flight of Starlings: ...

I begin each day with a hint of emotional blindness: The deafening quietude of noise calms the purpose ahead: I often imagine patrolling the streets my camera needs to see: Sightless heart, ears in ...

Sophie Windsor Clive and Liberty Smith happened upon a flock of starlings, called a murmuration, while canoeing at dusk, and captured "one of nature's greatest and most fleeting phenomena" on video.

'Magical footage has surfaced from Bodmin Moor, UK, which shows countless lovely starlings beautifying the sky via their coordinated flight. "Saw a starling murmuration beside Rough Tor on Bodmin Moor ...