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[:es]Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light[:]

[:es]Recent experiments show that particles should be able to go faster than light when they quantum mechanically “tunnel” through walls. [:]
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[:es]A Physicist’s Approach to Biology Brings Ecological Insights[:]

[:es]The physicist Jeff Gore tests theories about microbe communities experimentally and finds new rules governing ecological stability.[:]
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[:es]New Clues to Chemical Origins of Metabolism at Dawn of Life[:]

[:es]The ingredients for reactions ancestral to metabolism could have formed very easily in the primordial soup, new work suggests.[:]
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[:es]Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time[:]

[:es]New research finds that the subjective experience of time is linked to learning, thwarted expectations and neural fatigue.[:]
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[:es]Building the Mathematical Library of the Future[:]

[:es]A small community of mathematicians is using a software program called Lean to build a new digital repository. They hope it represents the future of their field.[:]
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[:es]Alchemy Arrives in a Burst of Light[:]

[:es]Researchers have shown how to effectively transform one material into another using a finely shaped laser pulse. [:]
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[:es]Some Physicists See Signs of Cosmic Strings From the Big Bang[:]

[:es]Subtle aberrations in the clockwork blinking of stars could become “the result of the century.” That’s if the distortions are produced by a network of giant filaments left over from […]
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[:es]Physicists Argue That Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter[:]

[:es]It was an old idea of Stephen Hawking’s: Unseen “primordial” black holes might be the hidden dark matter. It fell out of favor for decades, but a new series of […]
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[:es]At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold[:]

[:es]Computer scientists are trying to build an AI system that can win a gold medal at the world’s premier math competition.[:]