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Mobile Genes From the Mother Shape the Baby’s Microbiome

Tiny genetic sequences in a mother’s bacteria seem to hop into the infant’s bacteria, perhaps ensuring a healthy microbiome later in life.
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Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses

Queen ants live far longer than genetically identical workers. Researchers are learning what their longevity secrets could mean for aging in other species.
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Google Researcher, Long Out of Math, Cracks Devilish Problem About Sets

On nights and weekends, Justin Gilmer attacked an old question in pure math using the tools of information theory.
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The Year in Math

Four Fields Medals were awarded for major breakthroughs in geometry, combinatorics, statistical physics and number theory, even as mathematicians continued to wrestle with how computers are changing the discipline.
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[:es]The Year in Biology[:]

Momentum for new ideas in Alzheimer’s research joined advances in neuroscience, developmental biology and origin-of-life studies to make 2022 a memorable year of biological insights.
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[:es]The Year in Physics[:]

[:es]In a year filled with sweet new observations in astronomy and tantalizing breakthroughs in condensed matter physics, the brand-new space telescope takes the cake.[:]
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[:es]‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture[:]

Mathematicians predicted that if they imposed enough restrictions on how a shape might tile space, they could force a periodic pattern to emerge. But they were wrong.
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[:es]What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer.[:]

After decades in the shadow of the reigning model for Alzheimer’s disease, alternative explanations are finally getting the attention they deserve.
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[:es]Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer[:]

The unprecedented experiment explores the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information, even as the work’s interpretation remains disputed.