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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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This software is needed to collect and analyse the data from images, as well as to create simulations and compare their results. Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Scientific imaging in physics.