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[:es]Qubits Can Be as Safe as Bits, Researchers Show[:]

[:es]A new result shows that quantum information can theoretically be protected from errors just as well as classical information can. [:]
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[:es]Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning[:]

[:es]Scientists have never been able to adequately explain where lightning comes from. Now the first detailed observations of its emergence inside a cloud have exposed how electric fields grow strong […]
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[:es]Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem[:]

[:es]A new paper shows how to create longer disordered strings than mathematicians had thought possible, proving that a well-known recent conjecture is “spectacularly wrong.”[:]
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[:es]What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?[:]

[:es]It’s simple enough for AI to seem to comprehend data, but devising a true test of a machine’s knowledge has proved difficult.[:]
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[:es]Mathematicians Transcend Geometric Theory of Motion[:]

[:es]More than 30 years ago, Andreas Floer changed geometry. Now, two mathematicians have finally figured out how to extend his revolutionary perspective. [:]
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[:es]New Brain Maps Can Predict Behaviors[:]

[:es]Rapid advances in large-scale connectomics are beginning to spotlight the importance of individual variations in the neural circuitry. They also highlight the limitations of “wiring diagrams” alone.[:]
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[:es]Will We Ever Get Rid of COVID-19?[:]

[:es]No matter how much we’d like to eradicate SARS-CoV-2, it may be better to settle for other forms of control.[:]
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[:es]Wildfires of Varying Intensity Can Be Good for Biodiversity[:]

[:es]The spate of furious wildfires around the world during the past decade has revealed to ecologists how much biodiversity and “pyrodiversity” go hand in hand.[:]
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[:es]Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code[:]

[:es]By carefully constructing a multidimensional and well-connected graph, a team of researchers has finally created a long-sought locally testable code that can immediately betray whether it’s been corrupted.[:]