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[:es]How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.[:]

For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise.
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[:es]DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth.[:]

The DNA of some viruses doesn’t use the same four nucleotide bases found in all other life. New work shows how this exception is possible and hints that it could […]
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[:es]Mathematicians Prove Symmetry of Phase Transitions[:]

A group of mathematicians has shown that at critical moments, a symmetry called rotational invariance is a universal property across many physical systems.
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[:es]Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing[:]

A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains for the first time may explain how we can learn so quickly.
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[:es]How Long COVID Keeps Us Sick[:]

Other diseases with long-term symptoms can help us understand how COVID can affect us long after the virus itself is gone.
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[:es]Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise[:]

These ultrabright flashes have recently been tracked for days, upending ideas about the cataclysms that create them.
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[:es]A Lack of COVID-19 Genomes Could Prolong the Pandemic[:]

Genomic surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can help control the current pandemic and prevent future ones. But the process is marred by insufficient data and geographic inequities.
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[:es]How Math Might Complete the Ultimate Physics Theory[:]

Even in an incomplete state, quantum field theory is the most successful physical theory ever discovered. Nathan Seiberg, one of its leading architects, talks about the gaps in QFT and […]
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[:es]Gas Giants’ Energy Crisis Solved After 50 Years[:]

Jupiter and Saturn should be freezing cold. Instead, they’re hot. Researchers now know why.