networks

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.

To make headway on the mystery of consciousness, some researchers are trying a rigorous new way to test competing theories.

Some researchers are using a complexity framework thought to be purely theoretical to understand evolutionary dynamics in biological and computational systems.

Studying the structure of existing friendships in your community can help you forge the best connections when forming a new circle of friends.

Researchers find that when working memory gets overburdened, dialogue between three brain regions breaks down. The discovery provides new support for a larger concept about how the brain works.

A new study challenges one of the most celebrated and controversial ideas in network science.