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[:es]Are Saturn’s Rings Really as Young as the Dinosaurs?[:]
[:es]A surprisingly youthful estimate of the age of the rings has stirred a backlash. At stake is our best clue for understanding where the rings came from in the first […]
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[:es]Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools[:]
[:es]After millions of games, machine learning algorithms found creative solutions and unexpected new strategies that could transfer to the real world.[:]
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[:es]The Atomic Theory of Origami[:]
[:es]By reimagining the kinks and folds of origami as atoms in a lattice, researchers are uncovering strange behavior hiding in simple structures.[:]
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[:es]Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math[:]
[:es]Three physicists wanted to calculate how neutrinos change. They ended up discovering an unexpected relationship between some of the most ubiquitous objects in math.[:]
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[:es]‘Noise’ in the Brain Encodes Surprisingly Important Signals[:]
[:es]Activity in the visual cortex and other sensory areas is dominated by signals about body movements, down to little tics and twitches. Scientists are now rethinking how they study and […]
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[:es]Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence[:]
[:es]Neural networks that borrow strategies from biology are making profound leaps in their abilities. Is ignoring a goal the best way to make truly intelligent machines?[:]
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[:es]Cosmic Triangles Open a Window to the Origin of Time[:]
[:es]A close look at fundamental symmetries has exposed hidden patterns in the universe. Physicists think that those same symmetries may also reveal time’s original secret.[:]
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[:es]Google and IBM Clash Over Milestone Quantum Computing Experiment[:]
[:es]Today Google announced that it achieved “quantum supremacy.” Its chief quantum computing rival, IBM, said it hasn’t. The disagreement hinges on what the term really means. [:]
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[:es]Mathematicians Begin to Tame Wild ‘Sunflower’ Problem[:]
[:es]A major advance toward solving the 60-year-old sunflower conjecture is shedding light on how order begins to appear as random systems grow in size.[:]