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Sync or Swim

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Nicole Sharp

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On a vibrating bath, floating spinners synchronize their movements through their surface waves.
In larger groups, they can still interact, like here where they synchronize around standing waves that keep them from spinning.
In this snapshot, they are spinning in complex, interacting patterns.
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