Networks

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.

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.