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By Kimberly Patch - Networks, including the Internet and power grids, are complicated entities. They are made up of nodes -- servers or power stations -- that connect to greater or lesser degrees with other nodes, and they are susceptible to cascade failures, which occur when large, well-connected nodes abruptly disconnect from the network.

A researcher from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Germany has shown that it might be possible to suppress cascade failures triggered by attacks on large network nodes

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