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[:es]How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists[:]

The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information.
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[:es]Latest Neural Nets Solve World’s Hardest Equations Faster Than Ever Before[:]

Two new approaches allow deep neural networks to solve entire families of partial differential equations, making it easier to model complicated systems and to do so orders of magnitude faster.
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[:es]The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations[:]

Some populations of neurons simultaneously process sensations and memories. New work shows how the brain rotates those representations to prevent interference.
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[:es]How Radio Astronomy Reveals the Universe[:]

Radio waves, longer and less energetic than visible light, give astronomers access to some of the most obscure physics in the cosmos.
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[:es]Mathematician Disproves 80-Year-Old Algebra Conjecture[:]

Inside the symmetries of a crystal shape, a postdoctoral researcher has unearthed a counterexample to a basic conjecture about multiplicative inverses.
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[:es]New Genomic Study of Placenta Finds Deep Links to Cancer[:]

A patchwork of genomic differences in the placenta may explain the organ’s “live fast, die young” strategy and its connections to cancer.
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[:es]Mathematicians Settle Erdős Coloring Conjecture[:]

Fifty years ago, Paul Erdős and two other mathematicians came up with a graph theory problem that they thought they might solve on the spot. A team of mathematicians has […]
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[:es]Mathematicians Find a New Class of Digitally Delicate Primes[:]

Despite finding no specific examples, researchers have proved the existence of a pervasive kind of prime number so delicate that changing any of its infinite digits renders it composite.
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[:es]Long-Missing Midsize Black Hole Flashes Into View[:]

Black holes seemed to come only in sizes small and XXL. A new search strategy has uncovered a black hole of “intermediate” mass, raising hopes of more to come.