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[:en]Can a fluid analogue of a black hole point physicists toward the theory of quantum gravity, or is it a red herring?[:]

[:en]A new theory explains how fragile quantum states may be able to exist for hours or even days in our warm, wet brain. Experiments should soon test the idea.[:]

[:en]In a monumental set of experiments, spread out over nearly two decades, biologists removed genes two at a time to uncover the secret workings of the cell.[:]

[:es]The theoretical particle physicist Helen Quinn has blazed a singular path from the early days of the Standard Model to the latest overhaul of science education in the United States.[:]

[:es]The latest effort to overhaul math and science education offers a fundamental rethinking of the basic structure of knowledge. But will it be given time to work?[:]

[:es]How new mathematical techniques can be used to revitalize a 650-year-old work of art.[:]

[:es]The biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant have spent four decades on a tiny island in the Galápagos. Their discoveries reveal how new animal species can emerge in just a few […]

[:es]String theory has so far failed to live up to its promise as a way to unite gravity and quantum mechanics. At the same time, it has blossomed into one […]

[:en]Gene drives promise to spread a trait across an entire population — potentially even eradicating an entire species. But evolutionary forces are going to alter even the best-engineered plans.[:]