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[:es]The Spooky Quantum Phenomenon You’ve Never Heard Of[:]

Quantum computers may derive their power from the “magical” way that properties of particles change depending on the context.
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[:es]Surfaces So Different Even a Fourth Dimension Can’t Make Them the Same[:]

For decades mathematicians have searched for a specific pair of surfaces that can’t be transformed into each other in four-dimensional space. Now they’ve found them.
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[:es]The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses[:]

Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details.
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[:es]Astronomers Reimagine the Making of the Planets[:]

Observations of faraway planets have forced a near-total rewrite of the story of how our solar system came to be.
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[:es]Brain-Signal Proteins Evolved Before Animals Did[:]

Some animal neuropeptides have been around longer than nervous systems.
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[:es]The Secret Math Behind Mind-Reading Magic Tricks[:]

Four puzzle solutions reveal different ways to divine someone’s hidden number with impossibly little information.
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[:es]Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder[:]

The second law of thermodynamics is among the most sacred in all of science, but it has always rested on 19th century arguments about probability. New arguments trace its true […]
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[:es]Mathematicians Coax Fluid Equations Into Nonphysical Solutions[:]

The famed Navier-Stokes equations can lead to cases where more than one result is possible, but only in an extremely narrow set of situations.
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[:es]Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light[:]

Robots are about to venture into the sunless depths of lunar craters to investigate ancient water ice trapped there, while remote studies find hints about how water arrives on rocky […]