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![[:es]Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/09/Skull_Matryoshka_2880x1600_Lede-scaled.jpg)
[:es]Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins[:]
[:es]Modern humans and more ancient hominins interbred many times throughout Eurasia and Africa, and the genetic flow went both ways.[:]
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![[:es]Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a Laboratory[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/07/Heliospheric-current-sheet.jpg)
[:es]Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a Laboratory[:]
[:es]The twisting loops of the sun’s magnetic field control the flow of charged particles throughout the solar system. For the first time, researchers have created a scale model of this […]
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![[:es]Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/07/Quantum_Darwinism_2880x1620_Lede-scaled.jpg)
[:es]Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests[:]
[:es]Three experiments have vetted quantum Darwinism, a theory that explains how quantum possibilities can give rise to objective, classical reality.[:]
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![[:es]Cellular Life, Death and Everything in Between[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/07/pigbrain-celldeathafter-1500x2000.jpg)
[:es]Cellular Life, Death and Everything in Between[:]
[:es]The discovery that apparently dead cells can sometimes resurrect themselves has researchers exploring how far they can push the point of no return.[:]
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![[:es]Curious About Consciousness? Ask the Self-Aware Machines[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/07/Hod-Lipson_2880x1700_Lede_02-scaled.jpg)
[:es]Curious About Consciousness? Ask the Self-Aware Machines[:]
[:es]Consciousness is a famously hard problem, so Hod Lipson is starting from the basics: with self-aware robots that can help us understand how we think.[:]
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![[:es]How Randomness Can Make Math Easier[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/07/MathRandomness_2880x1620-LEDE-scaled.jpg)
[:es]How Randomness Can Make Math Easier[:]
[:es]Randomness would seem to make a mathematical statement harder to prove. In fact, it often does the opposite.[:]
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![[:es]The Quantum Theory That Peels Away the Mystery of Measurement[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/07/3D-transmon_2880x1920-LEDE-scaled.jpg)
[:es]The Quantum Theory That Peels Away the Mystery of Measurement[:]
[:es]A recent test has confirmed the predictions of quantum trajectory theory, which describes what happens during the long-mysterious “collapse” of a quantum system.[:]
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![[:es]How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/07/Lee-Smolin_2880x1620_Lede-scaled.jpg)
[:es]How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It[:]
[: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. [:]
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![[:es]The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/06/Invariance_Symmetry_2880x1620_Lede-scaled.jpg)
[:es]The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries[:]
[: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 […]
