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[:es]Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time[:]
[:es]New research finds that the subjective experience of time is linked to learning, thwarted expectations and neural fatigue.[:]
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[:es]Building the Mathematical Library of the Future[:]
[:es]A small community of mathematicians is using a software program called Lean to build a new digital repository. They hope it represents the future of their field.[:]
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[:es]Alchemy Arrives in a Burst of Light[:]
[:es]Researchers have shown how to effectively transform one material into another using a finely shaped laser pulse. [:]
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[:es]Some Physicists See Signs of Cosmic Strings From the Big Bang[:]
[:es]Subtle aberrations in the clockwork blinking of stars could become “the result of the century.” That’s if the distortions are produced by a network of giant filaments left over from […]
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[:es]Physicists Argue That Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter[:]
[:es]It was an old idea of Stephen Hawking’s: Unseen “primordial” black holes might be the hidden dark matter. It fell out of favor for decades, but a new series of […]
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[:es]At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold[:]
[:es]Computer scientists are trying to build an AI system that can win a gold medal at the world’s premier math competition.[:]
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[:es]How Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics[:]
[:es]Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years. [:]
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[:es]‘Trained Immunity’ Offers Hope in Fight Against Coronavirus[:]
[:es]A novel form of immunological memory that was mostly ignored for a century extends the benefits of vaccines. It could be of help in ending the COVID-19 pandemic.[:]
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[:es]How Two Became One: Origins of a Mysterious Symbiosis Found[:]
[:es]Carpenter ants need endosymbiotic bacteria to guide the early development of their embryos. New work has reconstructed how this deep partnership evolved.[:]