From toilet paper to industrial chemicals, there's no doubt the COVID-19 pandemic has been disruptive to global supply chains.
Economics & Business
Sep 22, 2020
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Many complex systems have underlying networks: they have nodes which represent units of the system and their edges indicate connections between the units. In some contexts, the connections are symmetric, but in many they ...
Mathematics
Sep 8, 2020
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A group of Israeli researchers recruited 16 violinists to study the behavior of a human network and find out what sets it apart from other networks, such as animals, computers, and other objects. The results combine science ...
Mathematics
Aug 11, 2020
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To ensure survival, living organisms are equipped with defensive systems that detect threats and respond with effective counter measures.
Plants & Animals
Jul 22, 2020
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The United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, a move known as Brexit, took effect Jan. 31, 2020. The results of this change affected trade and security, but scientists wanted to know how it might affect the EU ...
General Physics
Jun 23, 2020
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To an English scholar or avid reader, the Shakespeare Canon represents some of the greatest literary works of the English language. To a network scientist, Shakespeare's 37 plays and the 884,421 words they contain also represent ...
General Physics
Jun 16, 2020
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Research led by Queen Mary University of London, proposes a novel 'higher-order' Kuramoto model that combines topology with dynamical systems and characterises synchronization in higher-order networks for the first time.
General Physics
May 28, 2020
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A newly discovered connection between control theory and network dynamical systems could help estimate the size of a network even when a small portion is accessible.
General Physics
Apr 22, 2020
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Cancer cells grow and divide in an uncontrolled manner. A new study from Uppsala University now shows how alterations in a cell's degradation hubs, called lysosomes, can cause abnormal cell growth. The results are published ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 17, 2020
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Sometimes it's helpful to follow a stream of water to find out where the water is coming from and where it's likely to go.
Bio & Medicine
Feb 13, 2020
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