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[:es]The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses[:]

[:es]Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details.[:]
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[:es]Astronomers Reimagine the Making of the Planets[:]

[:es]Observations of faraway planets have forced a near-total rewrite of the story of how our solar system came to be.[:]
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[:es]Brain-Signal Proteins Evolved Before Animals Did[:]

[:es]Some animal neuropeptides have been around longer than nervous systems. [:]
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[:es]The Secret Math Behind Mind-Reading Magic Tricks[:]

[:es]Four puzzle solutions reveal different ways to divine someone’s hidden number with impossibly little information.[:]
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[:es]Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder[:]

[:es]The second law of thermodynamics is among the most sacred in all of science, but it has always rested on 19th century arguments about probability. New arguments trace its true […]
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[:es]Mathematicians Coax Fluid Equations Into Nonphysical Solutions[:]

[:es]The famed Navier-Stokes equations can lead to cases where more than one result is possible, but only in an extremely narrow set of situations.[:]
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[:es]Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light[:]

[:es]Robots are about to venture into the sunless depths of lunar craters to investigate ancient water ice trapped there, while remote studies find hints about how water arrives on rocky […]
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[:es]Elegant Six-Page Proof Reveals the Emergence of Random Structure[:]

[:es]Two young mathematicians have astonished their colleagues with a full proof of the Kahn-Kalai conjecture — a sweeping statement about how structure emerges in random sets and graphs. [:]
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[:es]Which Computational Universe Do We Live In?[:]

[:es]Cryptographers want to know which of five possible worlds we inhabit, which will reveal whether truly secure cryptography is even possible.[:]