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[:es]Secrets of Early Animal Evolution Revealed by Chromosome ‘Tectonics’[:]

Large blocks of genes conserved through hundreds of millions of years of evolution hint at how the first animal chromosomes came to be.
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[:es]Why Triangles Are Easy and Tetrahedra Are Hard[:]

The triangle angle sum theorem makes working with triangles easy. What happens when you can’t rely on it?
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[:es]In a Numerical Coincidence, Some See Evidence for String Theory[:]

In a quest to map out a quantum theory of gravity, researchers have used logical rules to calculate how much Einstein’s theory must change. The result matches string theory perfectly.
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[:es]Any Single Galaxy Reveals the Composition of an Entire Universe[:]

In computer simulations of possible universes, researchers have discovered that a neural network can infer the amount of matter in a whole universe by studying just one of its galaxies.
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[:es]Mathematicians Clear Hurdle in Quest to Decode Primes[:]

Paul Nelson has solved the subconvexity problem, bringing mathematicians one step closer to understanding the Riemann hypothesis and the distribution of prime numbers.
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[:es]Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution[:]

A surprising new solution to Leonhard Euler’s famous “36 officers puzzle” offers a novel way of encoding quantum information.
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[:es]Qubits Can Be as Safe as Bits, Researchers Show[:]

A new result shows that quantum information can theoretically be protected from errors just as well as classical information can.
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[:es]Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning[:]

Scientists have never been able to adequately explain where lightning comes from. Now the first detailed observations of its emergence inside a cloud have exposed how electric fields grow strong […]
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[:es]Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem[:]

A new paper shows how to create longer disordered strings than mathematicians had thought possible, proving that a well-known recent conjecture is “spectacularly wrong.”