(PhysOrg.com) -- Feral pigs introduced to the Galapagos Archipelago shortly after Charles Darwin’s historical visit have damaged the ecosystem of Santiago Island, causing, it is believed, the extinction or imperilment ...
Ecology
Feb 1, 2011
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In an effort to better understand the dynamics of complex networks, scientists have developed a mathematical model to describe interactions within ecological food webs. This research, performed by Northwestern University ...
Ecology
Jan 25, 2011
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As the eurozone continues to wobble, new analysis of countries' economic interconnectedness finds that some of the countries with the greatest potential to cause a global crash have surprisingly small gross domestic production.
General Physics
Nov 25, 2010
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A new center called the National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB), based at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, will help clinicians analyze an ever-growing wealth of complex biological data and ...
Other
Oct 29, 2010
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Researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science, with colleagues at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, observed for the first time a fundamental process of cellular organization in living plant cells: the birth ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2010
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Network scientists at Northeastern University have created a mathematical model that can simulate human mobility over the course of several months or even years.
Mathematics
Sep 15, 2010
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A team of researchers led by Dr. Hernan Makse, professor of physics at The City College of New York (CCNY), has shed new light on the way that information and infectious diseases proliferate across complex networks. Writing ...
General Physics
Aug 29, 2010
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Tweeters on the West Coast are considerably happier than those on the East Coast, and Twitter users are happiest on Sunday mornings and unhappiest on Thursday evenings.
Social Sciences
Jul 23, 2010
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A surprising discovery about the complex make-up of our cells could lead to the development of new types of medicines, a study suggests.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 22, 2010
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Internet, networks of connections between Hollywood actors, etc, are examples of complex networks, whose properties have been intensively studied in recent times. The small-world property (that everyone has a few-step connection ...
Quantum Physics
May 26, 2010
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