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[:es]The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does[:]

[:es]Familiar categories of mental functions such as perception, memory and attention reflect our experience of ourselves, but they are misleading about how the brain works. More revealing approaches are emerging.[:]
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[:es]Proof Assistant Makes Jump to Big-League Math[:]

[:es]Mathematicians using the computer program Lean have verified the accuracy of a difficult theorem at the cutting edge of research mathematics.[:]
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[:es]A Soil-Science Revolution Upends Plans to Fight Climate Change[:]

[:es]A centuries-old concept in soil science has recently been thrown out. Yet it remains a key ingredient in everything from climate models to advanced carbon-capture projects.[:]
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[:es]How to Find Rational Points Like Your Job Depends on It[:]

[:es]Using high school algebra and geometry, and knowing just one rational point on a circle or elliptic curve, we can locate infinitely many others.[:]
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[:es]Plasmid, Virus or Other? DNA ‘Borgs’ Blur Boundaries.[:]

[:es]Scientists have reported large DNA structures in some archaea that defy easy categorization.[:]
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[:es]New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry[:]

[:es]Laurent Fargues and Peter Scholze have found a new, more powerful way of connecting number theory and geometry as part of the sweeping Langlands program.[:]
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[:es]How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.[:]

[:es]For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise.[:]
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[:es]DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth.[:]

[:es]The DNA of some viruses doesn’t use the same four nucleotide bases found in all other life. New work shows how this exception is possible and hints that it could […]
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[:es]Mathematicians Prove Symmetry of Phase Transitions[:]

[:es]A group of mathematicians has shown that at critical moments, a symmetry called rotational invariance is a universal property across many physical systems.[:]