Fish swimming in a school may appear to move in a synchronized pattern, but at some point, the entire group breaks into smaller groups and then reunifies in a flash. The process may appear ...

Physicists are also interested in fish—above all when they are researching the formation of structures. A research team from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the University of Bristol ...

Swimming in schools makes fish surprisingly stealthy underwater, with a group able to sound like a single fish, researchers report. The study offers new insight into why fish swim in schools and holds ...

The team found that a school of fish moving together in just the right way was stunningly effective at noise reduction: A school of seven fish sounded like a single fish. Swimming in schools makes ...

The single biggest key to sound reduction, the team found, was the synchronization of the school's tail flapping—or actually the lack thereof. If fish moved in unison, flapping their tail fins at the ...