Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

The ventilation of the lung ranges between 1,000 and 21,000 liters per 24 hours in humans
depending on body size and physical activity. This exposes the extensive epithelial surface …

Mobile, social, real-time: the ongoing revolution in the way people communicate has given
rise to a new kind of epidemiology. Digital data sources, when harnessed appropriately, can …

Crop diseases are a major threat to food security, but their rapid identification remains difficult
in many parts of the world due to the lack of the necessary infrastructure. The combination …

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a process that violates lepton number conservation. It is
predicted to occur in extensions of the standard model of particle physics. This Letter reports …

Human society needs to increase food production by an estimated 70% by 2050 to feed an
expected population size that is predicted to be over 9 billion people. Currently, infectious …

Background Since late April, 2009, a novel influenza virus A (H1N1), generally referred to as
the “swine flu,” has spread around the globe and infected hundreds of thousands of people. …

… Color code denotes the difference in the average final size S m of disease outbreaks in
networks that were immunized before the outbreak using method m. The top panel (a) shows the …

There is great interest in the dynamics of health behaviors in social networks and how they
affect collective public health outcomes, but measuring population health behaviors over time …

The Gerda collaboration is performing a search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 76 Ge
with the eponymous detector. The experiment has been installed and commissioned at the …