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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  ·  10 July 2026  ·  From issue 05

Having overlapping types of relationships changes how fast ideas, habits, or diseases spread between people.

Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Vasu Chaudhary et al., Multiplexing in networks and diffusion, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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