To slow the virus, Alessandro Vespignani and other analysts are racing to model the behavior of its human host. By Benedict Carey BOSTON — The offices of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern ...

Conversations on Twitter create networks with identifiable contours as people reply to and mention one another in their tweets. These conversational structures differ, depending on the subject and the ...

[Editor’s note: This is an Op-Ed piece written by David Nordfors, director of the Innovation Journalism program at Stanford University] As social networks like Facebook try to expand into China, they ...