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Synchrony and your morning coffee

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Networks as complex as national power grids must be stable enough to maintain synchrony in order to function. Understanding how this stability is achieved forms the focus of a new study that holds promise for improving grid performance.

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  1. Ian Dobson is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, 1117 Coover Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA,

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Dobson, I. Synchrony and your morning coffee. Nature Phys 9, 133–134 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2559

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