Scientists have started to use cameras and computers to try to understand the mystery of murmurations. They have been surprised to learn that the flying patterns of murmurations have more in common with physics than biology. Fascinatingly, each starling in a murmuration is connected to every other starling. It's easy to understand how one starling knows to turn when its neighbor turns, since they are close together and can see each other. What scientists still don't understand, though, is how hundreds or thousands of starlings seem to know when to turn simultaneously, when birds at opposite ends of the flock are separated by space and hundreds or thousands of other birds.