E-Mail IMAGE: The colours represent the identities of nodes. The top row shows how many connections each node has. In the circle you can see all possible ways of making a connected... view more Credit: Szabolcs Horvat et al. 2020 / MPI-CBG / CSBD Many natural and human-made networks, such as computer, biological or social networks have a connectivity structure that critically shapes their behavior. The academic field of network science is concerned with analyzing such real-world complex networks and understanding how their structure influences their function or behavior. Examples are the vascular network of our bodies, the network of neurons in our brain, or the network of how an epidemic is spreading through a society.