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[:es]Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing[:]

[:es]A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains for the first time may explain how we can learn so quickly.[:]
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[:es]How Long COVID Keeps Us Sick[:]

[:es]Other diseases with long-term symptoms can help us understand how COVID can affect us long after the virus itself is gone.[:]
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[:es]Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise[:]

[:es]These ultrabright flashes have recently been tracked for days, upending ideas about the cataclysms that create them.[:]
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[:es]A Lack of COVID-19 Genomes Could Prolong the Pandemic[:]

[:es]Genomic surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can help control the current pandemic and prevent future ones. But the process is marred by insufficient data and geographic inequities.[:]
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[:es]How Math Might Complete the Ultimate Physics Theory[:]

[:es]Even in an incomplete state, quantum field theory is the most successful physical theory ever discovered. Nathan Seiberg, one of its leading architects, talks about the gaps in QFT and […]
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[:es]Gas Giants’ Energy Crisis Solved After 50 Years[:]

[:es]Jupiter and Saturn should be freezing cold. Instead, they’re hot. Researchers now know why.[:]
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[:es]Secret Workings of Smell Receptors Revealed for First Time[:]

[:es]Researchers have finally seen how some smell receptors bind to odor molecules. The work yields new insights into one of the most mysterious and versatile senses.[:]
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[:es]Mathematicians Prove 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Really Works[:]

[:es]In three towering papers, a team of mathematicians has worked out the details of Liouville quantum field theory, a two-dimensional model of quantum gravity.[:]
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[:es]Graphene Superconductors May Be Less Exotic Than Physicists Hoped[:]

[:es]Superconductivity has been discovered in graphene devices without any twists, suggesting the form of superconductivity in the material might be mundane after all.[:]