| ScienceWeek (10085 words) |
 | In social network analysis, discrete mathematics and statistics are combined with the emerging epistemology of complex systems to explore processes and phenomena as diverse as the diffusion of information through an organization, the adoption of innovations in society, and the spread of infectious disease in a population. |
 | In general, most of the difficult problems modern society faces arrive in the form of complex structures such as economies, ecosystems, and societies, and interactions among social scientists and biologists and the integration of their techniques and insights may prove crucial to developing a new understanding of how these complex systems behave. |
 | The fluidity of water in confined geometries is relevant to processes ranging from tribology to protein folding, and the molecular mobility of water in pores and slits has been extensively studied using a variety of approaches. |