50-year-old puzzle of network stability solved by Israeli researchers

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel have solved the diversity-stability paradox, a 50-year-old puzzle in ecology, by showing that the heterogeneity of interaction patterns in social, biological, and technological networks enhances stability and makes them extremely robust against external forces. Large and heterogeneous complex networks not only can be stable, but, in fact, they often must be stable. This discovery can offer new guidelines for designing stable infrastructure networks that can protect against viable threats and strengthen the resilience of crucial ecosystems.