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[:es]How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations[:]

Supergenes that lock inherited traits together are widespread in nature. Recent work shows that their blend of genetic benefits and risks for species can be complex.
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[:es]Ocean Bacteria Reveal an Unexpected Multicellular Form[:]

[:es]Marine bacteria normally seen as single cells join together as a “microscopic snow globe” to consume bulky floating carbohydrates.[:]
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[:es]Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter[:]

[:es]A recent gamma-ray burst known as the BOAT — “brightest of all time” — appears to have produced a high-energy particle that shouldn’t exist. For some, dark matter provides the […]
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[:es]Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Quantum Weirdness[:]

[:es]Physical-collapse theories have long offered a natural solution to the central mystery of the quantum world. But a series of increasingly precise experiments are making them untenable. [:]
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[:es]Mathematicians Discover the Fibonacci Numbers Hiding in Strange Spaces[:]

[:es]Recent explorations of unique geometric worlds reveal perplexing patterns, including the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio.[:]
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[:es]Teenager Solves Stubborn Riddle About Prime Number Look-Alikes[:]

[:es]In his senior year of high school, Daniel Larsen proved a key theorem about Carmichael numbers — strange entities that mimic the primes. “It would be a paper that any […]
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[:es]‘Monumental’ Math Proof Solves Triple Bubble Problem and More[:]

[:es]The decades-old Sullivan’s conjecture, about the best way to minimize the surface area of a bubble cluster, was thought to be out of reach for three bubbles and up — […]
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[:es]Biologists Use Genetic Circuits to Program Plant Roots[:]

[:es]Using inserted genetic circuitry, synthetic biologists controlled the growth of plant roots for the first time.[:]
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[:es]High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last[:]

[:es]A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity seen in cuprate crystals, confirming a 35-year-old theory.[:]