Swimming in schools has massive energy-saving benefits for fish. A study in “water tunnels” has found that fish use half as much energy swimming at high speeds if they are in a school rather than ...

Swimming in schools makes fish surprisingly stealthy underwater, with a group able to sound like a single fish. The new findings by Johns Hopkins University engineers working with a high-tech ...

Groups of fish give a schooling to solitary travelers--they expend 79 percent less energy. By Laura Baisas Published Jun 6, 2024 2:00 PM EDT Deposit Photos Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Just as you might look down at the sidewalk as you walk, fish look downward when they swim, a new study by a Northwestern University-led international collaboration has confirmed. The study is the ...

For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations. Recently, a team of researchers at Princeton and Harvard ran an experiment to ...

Sometimes less is more. Researchers accurately modeled dynamic fish schooling by incorporating the tendency of fish to focus on a single visual target instead of the whole school, as well as other ...

Swimming through turbulent water is easier for schooling fish compared to solitary swimmers, according to a study published June 6 th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Yangfan Zhang of ...