Look at the center of this map, at the little red dot that marks Kansas City. Technically, Kansas City is at the edge of Missouri, but here on this map it's in the upper middle section of a bigger ...

Physicist and professor at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Robert Koch Institute Dirk Brockmann joined us live via Skype from Germany with details on his research that focuses on computational ...

In a world of increasing global connections, predicting the spread of infectious diseases is more complicated than ever. Pandemics no longer follow the patterns they did centuries ago, when diseases ...

New research about the spread of pandemics by Dirk Brockmann, associate professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been ...

In March of 2009, the Mexican government confirmed it: A four-year-old boy in eastern Mexico’s La Gloria village had swine flu, or H1N1. Sixty percent of the village had reported an unknown ...

Understanding how and why COVID-19 spreads where it does is one of the great challenges of the pandemic. Knowing the mechanisms for its movement can help prevent worsening infections and limit the ...

Computational work conducted at Northwestern University has led to a new mathematical theory for understanding the global spread of epidemics. The resulting insights could not only help identify an ...

Researchers have investigated the outcomes of a previously ignored mechanism in modeling how humans travel. By challenging a long-held assumption, they hope to create models that can more accurately ...

Using a site that tracks dollar bills, a theoretical physicist noticed that our state boundaries are rather arbitrary, but that money tends to stay within new, more realistic boundaries. To ...

To gauge Eyjafjallajokull's global impact, researchers studied the worldwide air transportation network before and after 27 major European airports were closed. They found mobility patterns in places ...