News tagged with clustered networks

Unsociable networks

Innovation and high-tech "clusters" inspired by the success of Silicon Valley in the United States are, ironically, struggling to get much social networking out of the scientists who inhabit them, a new study ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Low-cost wireless sensor networks open new horizons for the Internet of things

A new European project enables high effective networking based on cheap wireless sensors in a wide range of business applications -- from more comfortable and energy-efficient environmental controls to precision monitoring ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Social networks influence health behaviors: study (w/ Video)

Scientists have long thought that social networks, which features many distant connections, or "long ties," produces large-scale changes most quickly. But in a new study, Damon Centola, an assistant professor ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers show how to divide and conquer 'social network' of cells

On Noah's Ark animals came in twos: male and female. In human bodies trillions of cells are coupled, too, and so are the molecules from which they are composed. Yet these don't come in twos, they are regrouped ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A genomic CluE for cloud computing

DNA sequencing is the next frontier in biological research. As new sequencing technology becomes more efficient and affordable, it is increasingly available to small laboratories. Thus, sequencing data is being generated ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0