{"id":213422,"date":"2025-05-07T05:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/hidden-network-links-may-predict-sudden-shifts-like-seizures-and-climate-tipping-points"},"modified":"2025-05-07T05:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:24:20","slug":"hidden-network-links-may-predict-sudden-shifts-like-seizures-and-climate-tipping-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/hidden-network-links-may-predict-sudden-shifts-like-seizures-and-climate-tipping-points","title":{"rendered":"Hidden network links may predict sudden shifts like seizures and climate tipping points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hidden-network-links-may-predict-sudden-shifts-like-seizures-and-climate-tipping-points.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The global climate is in an imbalance. Potential \u201ctipping elements\u201d include the Greenland ice sheet, coral reefs, and the Amazon rainforest. Together they form a network that can collapse if just one individual component tips.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Bonn University Hospital (UKB) and the University of Bonn have now shed light on seemingly sudden and rare, often irreversible changes within a system, such as those that can be observed in the climate, the economy, social networks or even the human brain. They took a closer look at extreme events such as epileptic seizures.<\/p>\n<p>Their aim was to better understand the mechanisms underlying such changes in order to ultimately make predictions. The results of their work have now been <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevResearch.7.023109\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global climate is in an imbalance. Potential \u201ctipping elements\u201d include the Greenland ice sheet, coral reefs, and the Amazon rainforest. Together they form a network that can collapse if just one individual component tips. Researchers from Bonn University Hospital (UKB) and the University of Bonn have now shed light on seemingly sudden and rare, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213422","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=213422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}