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The One Billion Map

For a network scientist few things can be more exciting that when the US government commits $100 million a year for its most massive network mapping initiative ever: obtain a map of the connectome, a complete circuitry of the brain. The effort’s scale and complexity only compares to Google’s mighty operation to map out the WWW and Facebook’s ambition to map out the world’s social circuitry.
May 01, 2013

Person of the Week: Dr. Alessandro Vespignani

Sternberg Distinguished Professor of Physics, Computer Science and Health Sciences, Alessandro Vespignani has been selected as MPHPProgramsList.com's Person of the Week.
April 30, 2013

Prepare for Takeoff

A little over a year ago, Justin Dowd’s boss bought a pack of colored chalk to write the day’s specials on the wall. Little did he know, that chalk would change Dowd’s life forever. The Northeastern undergraduate, then a third-year studying physics, told me he’d always had a penchant for doodling and a minor love affair with Einstein’s theory of relativity.
April 26, 2013

Under the Hood of the Ribosome

We all know—generally speaking—how a car works: The gas pedal makes it go, the break pedal makes it stop, and the steering wheel deter­mines its course. But pop open the hood and you’ll find there’s a lot more nuance to those maneuvers.
March 26, 2013

Beauty, Simplicity, and Symmetry

If Einstein’s theory of relativity is wrong, then this whole thing we call the universe is either a dream or it works a lot differently than we suspected.
March 26, 2013

A Burst for Bursts

The other day I starred the following headline in my RSS feed: “Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less.”
February 21, 2013

AAAS 2013: Predicting Human Behavior

If you’ve driven on the highway, you’ve seen it: The traffic jam appears out of nowhere and disappears just as mysteriously.
February 21, 2013

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