https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Just as humans can follow complex social situations in deciding who to befriend or to abandon, it turns out that animals use the same level of sophistication in judging social configurations, according to a new study that advances our understanding of the structure of animal social networks. https://phys.org/news/2013-04-friend-enemy-choice-affects-stability.html Plants & Animals Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:33:51 EDT news285852824 University of California, San Diego computer scientists have created software that they hope will lead to data centers that logically function as single, plug-and-play networks that will scale to the massive scale of modern data center networks. The software system -- PortLand -- is a fault-tolerant, layer 2 data center network fabric capable of scaling to 100,000 nodes and beyond. https://phys.org/news/2009-08-scientists-scale-layer-center-networks.html Computer Sciences Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:38:47 EDT news169753059