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[:es]Quantum Machine Appears to Defy Universe’s Push for Disorder[:]
[:es]One of the first quantum simulators has produced a puzzling phenomenon: a row of atoms that repeatedly pops back into place. Physicists have been racing to explain what might be […]
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[:es]Where Proof, Evidence and Imagination Intersect[:]
[:es]In mathematics, where proofs are everything, evidence is important too. But evidence is only as good as the model, and modeling can be dangerous business. So how much evidence is […]
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[:es]The Universe’s Ultimate Complexity Revealed by Simple Quantum Games[:]
[:es]A two-player game can reveal whether the universe has an infinite amount of complexity.[:]
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[:es]With a Second Repeating Radio Burst, Astronomers Close In on an Explanation[:]
[:es]Brief cosmic blips called fast radio bursts have puzzled astronomers since their discovery earlier this decade. Now researchers appear to be close to understanding what powers them.[:]
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[:es]Möbius Strips Defy a Link With Infinity[:]
[:es]A new proof shows why an uncountably infinite number of Möbius strips will never fit into a three-dimensional space.[:]
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[:es]How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram[:]
[:es]Physicists have devised a holographic model of “de Sitter space,” the term for a universe like ours, that could give us new clues about the origin of space and time.[:]
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[:es]Mysterious Quantum Rule Reconstructed From Scratch[:]
[:es]The Born rule, which connects the math of quantum theory to the outcomes of experiments, has been derived from simpler physical principles. The new work promises to give researchers a […]
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[:es]How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past[:]
[:es]The brain can’t directly encode the passage of time, but recent work hints at a workaround for putting timestamps on memories of events.[:]
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[:es]Artificial Intelligence Finds Ancient ‘Ghosts’ in Modern DNA[:]
[:es]With the help of deep learning techniques, paleoanthropologists find evidence of long-lost branches on the human family tree[:]