networks

The American researcher was recognized for his central role in inventing, standardizing and commercializing the ubiquitous networking technology.

Researchers can now find the shortest route through a network nearly as fast as theoretically possible, even when some steps can cancel out others.

Harry Halpin wants our internet conversations to be more private. He’s helped create a new kind of network that might make it possible.

With Hugo Duminil-Copin, thinking rarely happens without moving. His insights into the flow-related properties of complex networks have earned him the Fields Medal.

Computer scientists can now solve a decades-old problem in practically the time it takes to write it down.

Mitochondria appear to communicate and cooperate with one another, both within and between cells. Biologists are only just beginning to understand how and why.

Vinton Cerf helped create the internet 40 years ago, and he’s still working to connect people around the world — and off it.

Fifty years after the current internet was born, the physicist and computer scientist Stephanie Wehner is planning and designing the next internet — a quantum one.

Your expectations shape and quicken your perceptions. A new model that explains how that happens also suggests it’s time to update theories about sensory perception and decision making.