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[:eu]In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter[:]
[:eu]Elena Aprile now leads the world’s most sensitive dark-matter search. But before she could build her first detector, she had to make herself out of titanium.[:]
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[:eu]Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay[:]
[:eu]Physicists have failed to find disintegrating protons, throwing into limbo the beloved theory that the forces of nature were unified at the beginning of time.[:]
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[:eu]On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle[:]
[:eu]Janet Conrad has a plan to catch the sterile neutrino — an elusive particle, possibly glimpsed by a number of experiments, that would upend what we know about the subatomic […]
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[:eu]The Case Against Dark Matter[:]
[:eu]A proposed theory of gravity does away with dark matter, even as new astrophysical findings challenge the need for galaxies full of the invisible mystery particles.[:]
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[:es]Scientists Seek to Update Evolution[:]
[:es]Recent discoveries have led some researchers to argue that the modern evolutionary synthesis needs to be amended.[:]
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[:en]Strange Numbers Found in Particle Collisions[:]
[:en]An unexpected connection has emerged between the results of physics experiments and an important, seemingly unrelated set of numbers in pure mathematics.[:]
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[:en]What Sonic Black Holes Say About Real Ones[:]
[:en]Can a fluid analogue of a black hole point physicists toward the theory of quantum gravity, or is it a red herring?[:]
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[:en]A New Spin on the Quantum Brain[:]
[:en]A new theory explains how fragile quantum states may be able to exist for hours or even days in our warm, wet brain. Experiments should soon test the idea.[:]
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[:en]Giant Genetic Map Shows Life’s Hidden Links[:]
[:en]In a monumental set of experiments, spread out over nearly two decades, biologists removed genes two at a time to uncover the secret workings of the cell.[:]