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In the Magazine November 2008

Internode

The physics of networks

Statistical analysis of interconnected groups—of computers, animals, or people—yields important clues about how they function and even offers predictions of their future behavior.

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The Milky Way

Radio interferometry measures the black hole at the Milky Way's center

Looking for structure at the galactic center on the size scale predicted by general relativity requires very-long-baseline interferometry at the shortest radio wavelengths.

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Small-business funding

Big changes may loom for small-business research program

Congress weighing more funding for grants program and letting in venture-capital-controlled companies.

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Organic LED's

Are organic LEDs ready for the big screen?

This year the first commercial organic LED TV hit the US market, some 20 years after the invention of a fluorescent diode by Eastman Kodak Co's Ching Tang.

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Humans role in climate system

A broader view of the role of humans in the climate system

The 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group I presents a narrow view of the state of climate science.

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