Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness
of the interactions among their units. Over the past decades, a variety of complex systems …

Faculty hiring and retention determine the composition of the US academic workforce and
directly shape educational outcomes, careers, the development and spread of ideas and …

Network-based modeling of complex systems and data using the language of graphs has
become an essential topic across a range of different disciplines. Arguably, this graph-based …

We assembled a semi-automated reconstruction of L2/3 mouse primary visual cortex from∼
250× 140× 90 μm 3 of electron microscopic images, including pyramidal and non-pyramidal …

Brains comprise complex networks of neurons and connections, similar to the nodes and
edges of artificial networks. Network analysis applied to the wiring diagrams of brains can …

Random walks are ubiquitous in the sciences, and they are interesting from both theoretical
and practical perspectives. They are one of the most fundamental types of stochastic …

The observed architecture of ecological and socio-economic networks differssignificantly
from that of random networks. From a network science standpoint, non-random structural …

Effective control of an epidemic relies on the rapid discovery and isolation of infected
individuals. Because many infectious diseases spread through interaction, contact tracing is …

Highlights•We review the mathematical formalism of multilayer networks for animal
behaviour.•It allows the investigation of new research questions in animal social …