Nature Communications

• Science & Technology

  

  Researchers find the organization of the human brain to be nearly ideal

  A new strategy for mapping networks, from those underlying the Internet to the human brain, suggests possibilities for repairing damaged connections and disrupting dangerous ones.

  by Thea Singer

• Media & Arts

  

  Google algorithm links to cancer detection

  Network scientists at Northeastern find that Google’s PageRank algorithm can reveal complex interactions in other kinds of networks, such as the human body.

  by Kara Shemin