Tiny Chaotic Swimmers Achieving Great Collective Order: A study on the dynamics of self-propelling agents in a bacterial colony

“From chaos, order can emerge”, a counterintuitive statement but also one laying the foundation for complex living systems. Individually acting agents can collectively produce organised structures at a larger scale. Possibly the most ubiquitous example of this phenomenon are bacterial colonies.<br/>Everywhere around us, a pandemonium of pushing...