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[:es]New Black Hole Math Closes Cosmic Blind Spot[:]

[:es]A mathematical shortcut for analyzing black hole collisions works even in cases where it shouldn’t. As astronomers use it to search for new classes of hidden black holes, others wonder: […]
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[:es]A Backdoor Lets the Immune System Monitor the Brain[:]

[:es]A newfound hub of immune system activity at the back of the brain solves a century-old puzzle and offers a possible target for treatments.[:]
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[:es]Cosmic Map of Ultrahigh-Energy Particles Points to Long-Hidden Treasures[:]

[:es]Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays twist and turn on their way to Earth, which has made it nearly impossible to identify the colossal monsters that create them.[:]
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[:es]New Proof Reveals That Graphs With No Pentagons Are Fundamentally Different[:]

[:es]Researchers have proved a special case of the Erdős-Hajnal conjecture, which shows what happens in graphs that exclude anything resembling a pentagon.[:]
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[:es]How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists[:]

[:es]The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information.[:]
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[:es]Latest Neural Nets Solve World’s Hardest Equations Faster Than Ever Before[:]

[:es]Two new approaches allow deep neural networks to solve entire families of partial differential equations, making it easier to model complicated systems and to do so orders of magnitude faster.[:]
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[:es]The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations[:]

[:es]Some populations of neurons simultaneously process sensations and memories. New work shows how the brain rotates those representations to prevent interference.[:]
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[:es]How Radio Astronomy Reveals the Universe[:]

[:es]Radio waves, longer and less energetic than visible light, give astronomers access to some of the most obscure physics in the cosmos.[:]
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[:es]Mathematician Disproves 80-Year-Old Algebra Conjecture[:]

[:es]Inside the symmetries of a crystal shape, a postdoctoral researcher has unearthed a counterexample to a basic conjecture about multiplicative inverses.[:]