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[:es]Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they appear to show how order can arise from nothing.[:]

[:eu]Kaisa Matomäki has proved that properties of prime numbers over long intervals hold over short intervals as well. The techniques she uses have transformed the study of these elusive numbers.[:]

[:eu]Maryam Mirzakhani’s monumental work draws deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems.[:]

[:eu]A French mathematician has completed the classification of all convex pentagons, and therefore all convex polygons, that tile the plane.[:]

[:eu]Supernova hunters were able to train their telescopes on a recent eruption just hours after it exploded. What they found only adds to the growing list of questions surrounding these […]

[:eu]If gut bacteria can sway their hosts to be selfless, it could answer a riddle that goes back to Darwin.[:]

[:eu]Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s […]

[:eu]The British physicist and mathematician Sir Roger Penrose conjectured in 1969 that visible or “naked” singularities are actually forbidden from forming in nature, in a kind of cosmic censorship. But […]

[:eu]A different kind of dark matter could help to resolve an old celestial conundrum.[:]