3 papers
physics.bio-ph2026
Sensing, Traffic, and Construction in Termites
Yufei Xiao, Qinglin Wu, Kukhyun Lim +4
Subterranean and mound-building termites excavate, transport, and build within the same granular substrate that later regulates how they sense, move, and deposit material. From ant…
q-bio.QM2026
Moo-ving mountains: grazing agents drive terracette formation on steep hillslopes
Benjamin Seleb, Louis Gonzalez, Atanu Chatterjee +1
Terracettes, striking, step-like landforms that stripe steep, vegetated hillslopes, have puzzled scientists for more than a century. Competing hypotheses invoke either slow mass-wa…
cond-mat.soft2025
Noisy active matter
Atanu Chatterjee, Tuhin Chakrabortty, Saad Bhamla
Noise threads every scale of the natural world. Once dismissed as mere background hiss, it is now recognized as both a currency of information and a source of order in systems driv…