Story: From flocking birds to swarming molecules, physicists are seeking to understand 'active matter' and looking for a fundamental theory of the living world.
Resources:
1. An Equation of State for Active Matter
http://physics.aps.org/articles/pdf/10.1103/Physics.8.44 2. How far from equilibrium is active matter? http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.03 8103 3. Active Brownian particles: Entropy production and fluctuation response http://journals.aps.org/pre/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.0221 31