NOVA | The Pattern in Nature's Networks | PBS

Science shows it's a small world after all—and nature's networks follow a similar pattern. NOVA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAonline NOVA Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/novapbs Follow Mark Zastrow on Twitter: @MarkZastrow PRODUCTION CREDITS Writer, Producer, and Narrator Mark Zastrow Music by Mark Zastrow Editorial Help from Anna Rothschild Original Footage © WGBH Educational Foundation 2014 MEDIA CREDITS Mississippi River watershed National Park Service Diffusion tensor images Human Connectome Project, NIH, Massachusetts General Hospital, Meredith Reid (University of Alabama--Birmingham) Neurons, In Vitro Color! Flickr /thelunch_box (CC BY-NC 2.0) Small world neural network based on figure from van den Heuvel and Sporns (2011) / The Journal of Neuroscience 31(44):15775--15786 Autism spectrum disorder networks Barttfeld et al. (2011) / Neuropsychologia 49 (2011) 254--263 The Formation of Stars and Brown Dwarfs and the Truncation of Protoplanetary Discs in a Star Cluster Matthew R. Bate, Ian A. Bonnell, and Volker Bromm, UK Astrophysical Fluids Facility Floral Art Flickr / Louise Docker (CC BY 2.0) Dark matter filaments Ralf Kaehler, Oliver Hahn and Tom Abel, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (Stanford) Millennium Simulation flythroughs Springel et al. (2005) IMAGE (main image: small world network) © WGBH Educational Foundation 2014