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[:es]How Do Fireflies Flash in Sync? Studies Suggest a New Answer[:]

[:es]Field research suggests a new explanation for the synchronized flashing in fireflies and confirms that a novel form of “chimeric” synchrony occurs naturally.[:]
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[:es]Chaos Researchers Can Now Predict Perilous Points of No Return[:]

[:es]A custom-built machine learning algorithm can predict when a complex system is about to switch to a wildly different mode of behavior.[:]
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[:es]How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain[:]

[:es]Neural networks originally designed for language processing turn out to be great models of how our brains understand places. [:]
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[:es]How Shannon Entropy Imposes Fundamental Limits on Communication[:]

[:es]What’s a message, really? Claude Shannon recognized that the elemental ingredient is surprise.[:]
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[:es]How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series[:]

[:es]Rethinking questions and chasing patterns led Newton to find the connection between curves and infinite sums. [:]
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[:es]Hidden Chaos Found to Lurk in Ecosystems[:]

[:es]New research finds that chaos plays a bigger role in population dynamics than decades of ecological data seemed to suggest.[:]
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[:es]Computer Science Proof Unveils Unexpected Form of Entanglement[:]

[:es]Three computer scientists have posted a proof of the NLTS conjecture, showing that systems of entangled particles can remain difficult to analyze even away from extremes.[:]
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[:es]Mass and Angular Momentum, Left Ambiguous by Einstein, Get Defined[:]

[:es]Surprising as it may sound, 107 years after the introduction of general relativity, the meanings of basic concepts are still being worked out.[:]
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[:es]Can Computers Be Mathematicians?[:]

[:es]Artificial intelligence has bested humans at problem-solving challenges like chess and Go. Is mathematics research next? Steven Strogatz speaks with mathematician Kevin Buzzard to learn about the effort to translate […]