Network Theory Breakthrough Reveals The Origin Of Outbreaks →

Researchers solve the seemingly impossible problem of using only a few measurements to find the first victim of a disease.

Using this to find the source of a piece of information on the internet or a subset such as a social network might be interesting - and perhaps a lot easier taking into account “linking” and the highly structured and mapped nature of a social net.

Hopefully I’ll get around to reading the paper soon.