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[:es]DNA Jumps Between Animal Species. No One Knows How Often[:]

The discovery of a gene shared by two unrelated species of fish is the latest evidence that horizontal gene transfers occur surprisingly often in vertebrates.
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[:es]Astronomers Find Secret Planet-Making Ingredient: Magnetic Fields[:]

Scientists have long struggled to understand how common planets form. A new supercomputer simulation shows that the missing ingredient may be magnetism.
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[:es]Mathematicians Identify Threshold at Which Shapes Give Way[:]

A new proof establishes the boundary at which a shape becomes so corrugated, it can be crushed.
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[:es]A Burp or a Blast? Seismic Signals Reveal the Volcanic Eruption to Come[:]

Scientists have begun to decipher the subtle signs that reveal how explosive a volcanic eruption is going to be.
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[:es]Squishy Neutron Star Setback Dampens Hopes of Exotic Matter[:]

Groundbreaking results show that neutron stars of different masses may have the same size — upending astrophysical models.
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[:es]Mathematicians Find Long-Sought Building Blocks for Special Polynomials[:]

Hilbert’s 12th problem asked for novel analogues of the roots of unity, the building blocks for certain number systems. Now, over 100 years later, two mathematicians have produced them.
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[:es]Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds[:]

New work suggests that the radiolytic splitting of water supports giant subsurface ecosystems of life on Earth — and could do it elsewhere, too.
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[:es]Physicists Identify the Engine Powering Black Hole Energy Beams[:]

Supermassive black holes emit jets of white-hot plasma that stretch thousands of light-years across the cosmos. For the first time, researchers have identified what’s creating these jets.
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[:es]Mathematicians Answer Old Question About Odd Graphs[:]

A pair of mathematicians solved a legendary question about the proportion of vertices in a graph with an odd number of connections.