In 2020 network science became essential to understanding our interconnected world.
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"Network science is a field that aims to understand how people, objects, and information are linked, and how connections create complicated phenomena, from viral videos, to pandemics, to metabolic disease. While the field is well established, 2020 might be the year where it came of age, and became essential to grasping our increasingly complicated, interconnected world."
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