Institut de Recerca en Sistemes Complexos (UBICS): Enviaments recents
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Unravel the rotational and translational behavior of a single squirmer in flexible polymer solutionsat different Reynolds numbers
Microorganisms such as bacteria and algae navigate complex fluids, where their dynamics are vital for medical and industrial applications. However, the influence of the Reynolds number (Re) on the transport and rotational ...
Protocol for tailored in vitro neuronal networks on high-density microelectrode arrays with polydimethylsiloxane microstructures
Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-based high-density microelectrode arrays (HD-MEAs) enable neuronal recordings with high spatiotemporal resolution. However, integrating polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microstructures ...
Multiscale Field Theory for Network Flows
Network flows are pervasive, including the movement of people, transportation of goods, transmission of energy, and dissemination of information; they occur on a range of empirical interconnected systems, from designed ...
Mapping the structure and function of whole-mount retinal organoids
Cell therapy is a therapeutic avenue for retinal degenerative diseases. Photoreceptortransplantation faces challenges in obtaining high-quality and mature photoreceptors that caneffectively integrate and function, facilitating ...
Tunable dynamics of flexible magnetic microcrosses: synchronous rotation, breathing and out-of-plane arm overtaking
We combine colloidal self-assembly and soft-lithography techniques to realize flexible magnetic microcrosses that can be manipulated via external, time dependent magnetic fields. The crosses are characterized by a central ...
Role of connectivity anisotropies in the dynamics of cultured neuronal networks
An inherent challenge in designing laboratory-grown, engineered living neuronal networks lies in predicting the dynamic repertoire of the resulting network and its sensitivity to experimental variables. To fill this gap, ...
Citizen Science initiatives in climate-vulnerable neighbourhoods: a new transdisciplinary approach to tackle sustainability challenges?
According to the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), the summer of 2025 (June 1-August 31) was exceptionally warm across Spain, with an average temperature of 24.2°C on the mainland. This value is 2.1°C above the ...
Modular architecture confers robustness to damage and facilitates recovery in spikingneural networks modeling in vitro neurons
Impaired brain function is restored following injury through dynamic processes that involve synaptic plasticity. This restoration is supported by the brain’s inherent modular organization, which promotes functional separation ...
Discounting the Distant Future: What Do Historical Bond Prices Imply about the Long-Term Discount Rate?
We present a thorough empirical study on real interest rates by also including risk aversion through the introduction of the market price of risk. From the viewpoint of complex systems science and its multidisciplinary ...
Guided accumulation of active particles by topological design of a second-order skin effect
Collective guidance of out-of-equilibrium systems without using external fields is a challenge of paramount importance in active matter, ranging from bacterial colonies to swarms of self-propelled particles. Designing ...
Correction to: Citizen science for social physics: digital tools and participation (The European Physical Journal Plus, (2024), 139, 7, (572), 10.1140/epjp/s13360-024-05336-3)
Social physics is an active and diverse field in which many scientists with formal training in physics study a broad class of complex social phenomena. Social physics investigates societal problems but most often does not ...
Integrated information decomposition unveils major structural traits of in silico and in vitro neuronal networks
The properties of complex networked systems arise from the interplay between the dynamics of their elements and the underlying topology. Thus, to understand their behavior, it is crucial to convene as much information ...
Wiring the Past: A Network Science Perspective on the Challenge of Archeological Similarity Networks
Nowadays, it is a common knowledge that scholars from different disciplines, regardless of the specificities of their research domains, can find in network science a valuable ally when tackling complexity. However, there ...
Phase separation of self-propelled disks with ferromagnetic and nematic alignment
We present a comprehensive study of a model system of repulsive self-propelled disks in two dimensions with ferromagnetic and nematic velocity alignment interactions. We characterize the phase behavior of the system as a ...
Signatures of criticality in turning avalanches of schooling fish
Moving animal groups transmit information through propagating waves or behavioral cascades, exhibiting characteristics akin to systems near a critical point from statistical physics. Using data from freely swimming schooling ...
Thermally active nanoparticle clusters enslaved by engineered domain wall traps
The stable assembly of fluctuating nanoparticle clusters on a surface represents a technological challenge of widespread interest for both fundamental and applied research. Here we demonstrate a technique to stably confine ...
Comparison between 16S rRNA and shotgun sequencing in colorectal cancer, advanced colorectal lesions, and healthy human gut microbiota
Background: Gut dysbiosis has been associated with colorectal cancer (CRC), the third most prevalent cancer in the world. This study compares microbiota taxonomic and abundance results obtained by 16S rRNA gene sequencing ...
Collective durotaxis of cohesive cell clusters on a stiffness gradient
Many types of motile cells perform durotaxis, namely, directed migration following gradients of substrate stiffness. Recent experiments have revealed that cell monolayers can migrate toward stiffer regions even when ...
Emergent colloidal currents across ordered and disordered landscapes
Many-particle effects in driven systems far from equilibrium lead to a rich variety of emergent phenomena. Their classification and understanding often require suitable model systems. Here we show that microscopic magnetic ...
A complex network framework to model cognition: unveiling correlation structures from connectivity
Several approaches to cognition and intelligence research rely on statistics-based model testing, namely, factor analysis. In the present work, we exploit the emerging dynamical system perspective putting the focus on the ...
