Some complex networks are resilient. Cut out one of the hubs in the Internet’s backbone, for example, and information will find alternate routes through other hubs. In some cases, however, cutting connections can make a network so inefficient as to be unusable, researchers have now shown.
Eduardo López of the Los Alamos (N.M.)
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