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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.[:]
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[:es]New Genomic Study of Placenta Finds Deep Links to Cancer[:]

[:es]A patchwork of genomic differences in the placenta may explain the organ’s “live fast, die young” strategy and its connections to cancer.[:]
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[:es]Mathematicians Settle Erdős Coloring Conjecture[:]

[:es]Fifty years ago, Paul Erdős and two other mathematicians came up with a graph theory problem that they thought they might solve on the spot. A team of mathematicians has […]
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[:es]Mathematicians Find a New Class of Digitally Delicate Primes[:]

[:es]Despite finding no specific examples, researchers have proved the existence of a pervasive kind of prime number so delicate that changing any of its infinite digits renders it composite.[:]
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[:es]Long-Missing Midsize Black Hole Flashes Into View[:]

[:es]Black holes seemed to come only in sizes small and XXL. A new search strategy has uncovered a black hole of “intermediate” mass, raising hopes of more to come.[:]