Surprisingly, fish tend to align against the current they face, not with it. Such behavior, called rheotaxis, is replicated in a variety of experiments in which the fish is deprived […]
Two latest studies on firearm acquisition featured by media outlets
Our two newest research studies modeling trends related to firearm prevalence and gun violence, “Spatio-temporal patterns of firearm acquisition in the United States in different presidential terms” and “A spatiotemporal […]
Patterns of firearm acquisition in the U.S. in different presidential terms
Do people in different states in the U.S. purchase firearms at the same time? This was the question that the new paper by Prof. Maurizio Porfiri, together with Xu Wang […]
Firearm ownership in the U.S. – a spatiotemporal model
Firearm violence is a major public health crisis in the United States. Despite this, scientific research on firearm-related harms is not advanced, as spatially and temporally resolved data on firearm […]
The illustration to our study on the cover of Advanced Theory and Simulations
The recent study conducted by a team of collaborators led by our postdoc Agnieszka Truszkowska and Lorenzo Zino, supervised by Profs. Maurizio Porfiri, Sachit Butail, Emanuele Caroppo, Zhong-Ping Jiang, and […]