Subject

Physical sciences

Physics, chemistry, astronomy, materials and the mathematical sciences.

PhysicsChemistryAstronomy and planetary scienceMaterials scienceMathematics and computing

1 article

Review Article Open access

Active matter: from bacterial swarms to robot collectives

Systems made of self-propelled units—from cells to robots—obey shared physical principles that are only now coming into focus.

Aisha Ivanova, Leila Kim … Priya Raman

Lumen 3, 21–30 (2026)