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[:es]Lee Smolin has a radical idea for how to understand an object with no exterior: Imagine it built bit-by-bit from relationships between events. [:]

[:es]Lurking behind Einstein’s theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry […]

[:es]What do moiré patterns seen in optics, art, photography and color printing have to do with superconducting layers of graphene?[:]

[:es]In just three pages, a Russian mathematician has presented a better way to color certain types of networks than many experts thought possible.[:]

[:es]Contrary to popular belief, bacteria have organelles too. Scientists are now studying them for insights into how complex cells evolved.[:]

[:es]A recent challenge to Stephen Hawking’s biggest idea — about how the universe might have come from nothing — has cosmologists choosing sides.[:]

[:es]Immunologists confirm an old hunch: T-cells identify what belongs in the body by timing how long they can bind to it.[:]

[:es]Surviving fragments of genetic material preserved in sediments allow metagenomics researchers to see the full diversity of past life — even microbes. [:]

[:es]A new theoretical model may help explain the shocking onset of superconductivity in stacked, twisted carbon sheets. [:]