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[:es]Egg Laying or Live Birth: How Evolution Chooses[:]
[:es]A lizard that both lays eggs and gives birth to live young is helping scientists understand how and why these forms of reproduction evolved.[:]
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[:es]Mathematician Measures the Repulsive Force Within Polynomials[:]
[:es]Vesselin Dimitrov’s proof of the Schinzel-Zassenhaus conjecture quantifies the way special values of polynomials push each other apart.[:]
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[:es]‘Milestone’ Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles[:]
[:es]Anyons don’t fit into either of the two known particle kingdoms. To find them, physicists had to erase the third dimension.[:]
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[:es]What Goes On in a Proton? Quark Math Still Conflicts With Experiments.[:]
[:es]Two ways of approximating the ultra-complicated math that governs quark particles have recently come into conflict, leaving physicists unsure what their decades-old theory predicts.[:]
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[:es]What Might Be Speeding Up the Universe’s Expansion?[:]
[:es]Physicists have proposed extra cosmic ingredients that could explain the faster-than-expected expansion of space. [:]
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[:es]Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations[:]
[:es]Why did sex evolve? Theories usually focus on the diversity of future generations, but some researchers find compelling explanations in the immediate benefits to individuals.[:]
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[:es]Why Are Black Holes So Bright?[:]
[:es]And why is the black hole at the center of our own galaxy so dim?[:]
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[:es]Some Animals Have No Microbiome. Here’s What That Tells Us.[:]
[:es]To stay healthy, humans and some other animals rely on a complex community of bacteria in their guts. But research is starting to show that those partnerships might be more […]
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[:es]Where Do New Genes Come From?[:]
[:es]In their search for sources of genetic novelty, researchers find that some “orphan genes” with no obvious ancestors evolve out of junk DNA, contrary to old assumptions.[:]