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[:es]A Backdoor Lets the Immune System Monitor the Brain[:]

A newfound hub of immune system activity at the back of the brain solves a century-old puzzle and offers a possible target for treatments.
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[:es]Cosmic Map of Ultrahigh-Energy Particles Points to Long-Hidden Treasures[:]

Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays twist and turn on their way to Earth, which has made it nearly impossible to identify the colossal monsters that create them.
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[:es]New Proof Reveals That Graphs With No Pentagons Are Fundamentally Different[:]

Researchers have proved a special case of the Erdős-Hajnal conjecture, which shows what happens in graphs that exclude anything resembling a pentagon.
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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.