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![[:es]Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2021/07/Neuron-Coding_2880x1620_Lede-scaled.jpg)
[: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[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2021/07/Seasons_Covid_2880x1620_Lede-scaled.jpg)
[: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[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2021/07/RGB_2880x1620_Lede-scaled.jpg)
[: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[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2021/06/CGS_Globe_1440_Lede_op.jpg)
[: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[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2021/06/Nathan-Seiberg_Bridge_Lede-1-scaled.jpg)
[: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 how mathematicians could fill them.
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![[:es]Gas Giants’ Energy Crisis Solved After 50 Years[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2021/06/saturn_aurora_2880x1620_Lede-scaled.jpg)
[:es]Gas Giants’ Energy Crisis Solved After 50 Years[:]
Jupiter and Saturn should be freezing cold. Instead, they’re hot. Researchers now know why.
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![[:es]Secret Workings of Smell Receptors Revealed for First Time[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2021/06/Odor_2880x1620_Lede_v1-scaled.jpg)
[:es]Secret Workings of Smell Receptors Revealed for First Time[:]
Researchers have finally seen how some smell receptors bind to odor molecules. The work yields new insights into one of the most mysterious and versatile senses.
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![[:es]Mathematicians Prove 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Really Works[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2021/06/Quantum-Field-Theory_Liouville-Bridge_Lede-scaled.jpg)
[:es]Mathematicians Prove 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Really Works[:]
In three towering papers, a team of mathematicians has worked out the details of Liouville quantum field theory, a two-dimensional model of quantum gravity.
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![[:es]Graphene Superconductors May Be Less Exotic Than Physicists Hoped[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2021/06/Trilayer_Graphene_2880x1620_Lede-scaled.jpg)
[:es]Graphene Superconductors May Be Less Exotic Than Physicists Hoped[:]
Superconductivity has been discovered in graphene devices without any twists, suggesting the form of superconductivity in the material might be mundane after all.
