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[:es]How Your Heart Influences What You Perceive and Fear[:]
[:es]The heartbeat and other bodily processes play a surprising role in shaping perception and cognition.[:]
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[:es]The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View[:]
[:es]Astronomers are discovering that magnetic fields permeate much of the cosmos. If these fields date back to the Big Bang, they could solve a major cosmological mystery. [:]
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[:es]The Tricky Math of Herd Immunity for COVID-19[:]
[:es]Herd immunity differs from place to place, and many factors influence how it’s calculated.[:]
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[:es]Cosmic Rays May Explain Life’s Bias for Right-Handed DNA[:]
[:es]Cosmic rays may have given right-handed genetic helixes an evolutionary edge at the beginning of life’s history. [:]
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[:es]New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles[:]
[:es]While locked down due to COVID-19, Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb figured out how to prove a version of the “rectangular peg problem.”[:]
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[:es]The Two Forms of Mathematical Beauty[:]
[:es]Mathematicians typically appreciate either generic or exceptional beauty in their work, but one type is more useful in describing the universe.[:]
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[:es]Dark Matter Experiment Finds Unexplained Signal[:]
[:es]Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data. One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics.[:]
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[:es]Why Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces[:]
[:es]We asked four physicists why gravity stands out among the forces of nature. We got four different answers.[:]
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[:es]Males Are the Taller Sex. Estrogen, Not Fights for Mates, May Be Why.[:]
[:es]To explain why men are on average taller than women, scientists theorized about competition for mates. But the effects of estrogen on bone growth may be answer enough. [:]