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March 05, 2019

Swimming Microbes Steer Themselves into Mathematical Order, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A sheet of tiny swimming organisms that “push” themselves through fluid with, say, flagella, create forces in the liquid that bend the sheet in asymmetric, shrinking folds

September 17, 2018

Particles Surf Their Own Waves, Reveal How Microbes and Cells Move Through Human Body By Thomas Sumner
A ball falling through goopy liquid will generate a wave in a nearby flexible rubber sheet

September 25, 2017

‘Active Matter’ Research Explores How Biological Systems Put Themselves Together
Image of dynamical microtubules

October 16, 2013

Fluid-structure Interactions From the Large to the Very Small
Portrait photo of Mike Shelley
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