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[:es]Black, Hot Ice May Be Nature’s Most Common Form of Water[:]
[:es]A new experiment confirms the existence of “superionic ice,” a bizarre form of water that might comprise the bulk of giant icy planets throughout the universe. [:]
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[:es]Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next[:]
[:es]Your expectations shape and quicken your perceptions. A new model that explains the effect suggests it’s time to update theories about sensory processing. [:]
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[:es]With a Simple Twist, a ‘Magic’ Material Is Now the Big Thing in Physics[:]
[:es]The stunning emergence of a new type of superconductivity with the mere twist of a carbon sheet has left physicists giddy, and its discoverer nearly overwhelmed. [:]
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[:es]New Turmoil Over Predicting the Effects of Genes[:]
[:es]Promising efforts at disentangling the effects of genes and the environment on complicated traits may have been confounded by statistical problems. [:]
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[:es]Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life[:]
[:es]Researchers are beginning to understand the ways in which viruses strategically manipulate and cooperate with one another. [:]
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[:es]Researchers Rethink the Ancestry of Complex Cells[:]
[:es]New studies revise ideas about the symbiosis that gave mitochondria to cells and about whether the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes was one cell or many. [:]
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[:es]Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization[:]
[:es]In a world seemingly filled with chaos, physicists have discovered new forms of synchronization and are learning how to predict and control them.[:]
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[:es]In Quantum Games, There’s No Way to Play the Odds[:]
[:es]These games combine quantum entanglement, infinity and impossible-to-calculate winning probabilities. But if researchers can crack them, they’ll reveal deep mathematical secrets.[:]
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[:es]How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning[:]
[:es]Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception.[:]