Quanta
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[:es]A 53-Year-Old Network Coloring Conjecture Is Disproved[:]
[:es]In just three pages, a Russian mathematician has presented a better way to color certain types of networks than many experts thought possible.[:]
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[:es]Bacterial Complexity Revises Ideas About ‘Which Came First?’[:]
[:es]Contrary to popular belief, bacteria have organelles too. Scientists are now studying them for insights into how complex cells evolved.[:]
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[:es]Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning[:]
[:es]A recent challenge to Stephen Hawking’s biggest idea — about how the universe might have come from nothing — has cosmologists choosing sides.[:]
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[:es]Immune Cells Measure Time to Identify Foreign Proteins[:]
[:es]Immunologists confirm an old hunch: T-cells identify what belongs in the body by timing how long they can bind to it.[:]
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[:es]Ancient DNA Yields Snapshots of Vanished Ecosystems[:]
[:es]Surviving fragments of genetic material preserved in sediments allow metagenomics researchers to see the full diversity of past life — even microbes. [:]
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[:es]What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?[:]
[:es]A new theoretical model may help explain the shocking onset of superconductivity in stacked, twisted carbon sheets. [:]
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[:es]Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge[:]
[:es]The universe of problems that a computer can check has grown. The researchers’ secret ingredient? Quantum entanglement. [:]
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[:es]The Hidden Heroines of Chaos[:]
[:es]Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science. [:]
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[:es]Out of a Magic Math Function, One Solution to Rule Them All[:]
[:es]Mathematicians used “magic functions” to prove that two highly symmetric lattices solve a myriad of problems in eight- and 24-dimensional space. [:]