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Nature 437, xiii (15 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/7057xiiia; Published online 14 September 2005

Making the paper: Shehzaad Kaka and Fred Mancoff

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Power from some devices can be more than the sum of their parts.

Fireflies flashing in unison...pedestrians marching over bridges and falling in step with each other... Nature has a way of getting things in synch. So it should come as no surprise that two separate groups — one academic, one industrial — simultaneously pursued such effects in tiny devices (see pages 389 and 393).

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