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Greedy Routing Enables Network Navigation Without a 'Map'

Greedy Routing Enables Network Navigation Without a 'Map'

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- How does an e-mail get routed so quickly to its recipient's inbox, or a search query generate relevant Web pages from servers from around the world? Navigating the Internet - or any similar ...





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'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' game provides clue to efficiency of complex networks

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 2

As the global population continues to grow exponentially, our social connections to one another remain relatively small, as if we're all protagonists in the Kevin Bacon game inspired by "Six Degrees of Separation," ...


Taiwan's Asustek, Acer unveil new laptop PCs

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The world's two leading makers of mini laptops Tuesday introduced their latest computers at the opening of Asia's leading information technology trade fair.


Researchers develop a worldwide tourism network

Researchers develop a worldwide tourism network

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (33) | comments 3

It wasn't too long ago in human history that people rarely, if ever, traveled beyond the village they were born in. We've come a long way since then: according to the World Tourism Organization (WTO), international ...


The Architecture of Globalization

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 28, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Using recent advances in the study of networks, two University of Arkansas economists suggest alternative measures of international economic integration, popularly referred to as globalization. Rather than focusing on trade ...


A woman displays a latest Acer UX-30 notebook at Computex Taipei

Netbooks, broadband mobile centre stage in Taipei trade fair

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Asia's biggest information technology trade show opened in Taiwan Tuesday, with the spotlight on low-priced notebook computers and advanced broadband Internet mobile technology.


The global dynamics and spread of Hepatitis C virus 1a and 1b: A phylogeographical analysis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research published this week in PLoS Medicine finds that the global spread of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) coincided with widespread use of transfused blood and with the expansion of intravenous drug use but slowed before wholes ...


The new 'look' of superconductivity

The new 'look' of superconductivity

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 06, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (43) | comments 0

Like the surface motif of a bubble bath, the spatial distribution of a magnetic field penetrating a superconductor can exhibit an intricate, foam-like structure. Ruslan Prozorov at the U.S. Department of ...


What's so funny about global warming?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Ian Leung has wanted to do something about global warming for almost two decades. Ever since he switched careers in 1991 from science advisor to the Ontario Ministry of Environment to pursue a career as an actor, the environment-and ...


UK University to probe integrity of climate data

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 5

(AP) -- A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.


1,700 UK scientists back climate science

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 6

(AP) -- Fighting back against climate skeptics, over 1,700 scientists in Britain have signed a statement defending the evidence that climate change is being caused by humans, Britain's weather office said Thursday.



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