The cosmic web and human networks
Neurons and nebulae
Self organization in space and society
Life cycles of stars and civilizations
What is the name of the nearest supercluster of galaxies that contains our own Milky Way?
Which organism's growth pattern was used by scientists in 2020 to map invisible cosmic dark matter filaments?
futura Weave cosmic stars together to learn how the universe's structure can organize human life.
futura Human cities grow along transit lines just like galaxies cluster at the intersections of cosmic filaments.
What are the dense regions where cosmic filaments intersect and galaxies cluster called?
Which city's transit system was famously modeled efficiently by slime mold in a famous 2010 experiment?
futura Cosmic Web Human Networks
Cosmic web and brain, structures align! Filament networks, truly divine!
futura The global internet mimics the decentralized, hub-and-spoke architecture of the cosmic web.
What type of mathematical network describes both the internet and the clustering of galaxies?
What invisible substance makes up about 85% of the universe's matter and forms the scaffolding of the cosmic web?
Cosmic slime mold: Scientists used the growth patterns of yellow slime mold to map invisible dark matter webs connecting distant galaxies.
What giant cosmic structure did astronomers Margaret Geller and John Huchra discover in 1989?
Which physical force is primarily responsible for pulling matter together to form the cosmic web?
A group or system of interconnected people or things. In 2020, Italian scientists compared the universe's large-scale structure to neural pathways in the human brain.