{"id":196788,"date":"2024-09-29T17:31:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T22:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/from-branches-to-loops-the-physics-of-transport-networks-in-nature"},"modified":"2024-09-29T17:31:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T22:31:48","slug":"from-branches-to-loops-the-physics-of-transport-networks-in-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/from-branches-to-loops-the-physics-of-transport-networks-in-nature","title":{"rendered":"From branches to loops: The physics of transport networks in nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-branches-to-loops-the-physics-of-transport-networks-in-nature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers described how loops, crucial for the stability of such networks, occur in transport networks found in nature. The researchers observed that when one branch of the network reaches the system\u2019s boundary, the interactions between the branches change drastically. Previously repelling branches begin to attract each other, leading to the sudden formation of loops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers described how loops, crucial for the stability of such networks, occur in transport networks found in nature. The researchers observed that when one branch of the network reaches the system\u2019s boundary, the interactions between the branches change drastically. Previously repelling branches begin to attract each other, leading to the sudden [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}