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Swarming bacteria and human airway cells curl their topological defects into spirals
Standard active nematic theory sends paired defects along straight, mirrored lines. A Ben-Gurion-led team reports in Nature Physics that it measured curved, co-rotating paths in swarming bacteria and in human bronchial cells.
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