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Axions Would Solve Another Major Problem in Physics

[:es]In a new paper, physicists argue that hypothetical particles called axions could explain why the universe isn’t empty.[:]
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[:es]Ideal Glass Would Explain Why Glass Exists at All[:]

[:es]Glass is anything that’s rigid like a crystal, yet made of disordered molecules like a liquid. To understand why it exists, researchers are attempting to create the perfect, still-hypothetical “ideal […]
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[:es]Machine Learning Takes On Antibiotic Resistance[:]

[:es]To combat resistant bacteria and refill the trickling antibiotic pipeline, scientists are getting help from deep learning networks.[:]
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[:es]Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math[:]

[:es]Computer scientists established a new boundary on computationally verifiable knowledge. In doing so, they solved major open problems in quantum mechanics and pure mathematics.[:]
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[:es]New Wrinkle Added to Cosmology’s Hubble Crisis[:]

[:es]A problem confronts cosmology: Two independent measurements of the universe’s expansion give incompatible answers. Now a third method, advanced by an astronomy pioneer, appears to bridge the divide. [:]
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[:es]In Brain Waves, Scientists See Neurons Juggle Possible Futures[:]

[:es]Faced with a decision, the brain weighs its options by bundling them into rapidly alternating cycles of brain waves. [:]
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[:es]‘Radical Change’ Needed After Latest Neutron Star Collision[:]

[:es]A recent neutron star merger has defied astronomers’ expectations, leading them to question longstanding ideas about neutron stars and the supernovas that create them. “We have to go back to […]
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[:es]New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery[:]

[:es]By watching for a special kind of flare, astronomers have identified the fingerprints of an Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star.[:]
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[:es]The Map of Mathematics[:]

[:es]Here is a map of mathematics as it stands today, mathematics as it is practiced by mathematicians.[:]