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[:es]A Newfound Source of Cellular Order in the Chemistry of Life[:]

Inside cells, droplets of biomolecules called condensates merge, divide and dissolve. Their dance may regulate vital processes.
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[:es]Mathematicians Resurrect Hilbert’s 13th Problem[:]

Long considered solved, David Hilbert’s question about seventh-degree polynomials is leading researchers to a new web of mathematical connections.
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[:es]The Crooked Geometry of Round Trips[:]

Imagine if we lived on a cube-shaped Earth. How would you find the shortest path around the world?
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[:es]New Quantum Algorithms Finally Crack Nonlinear Equations[:]

Two teams found different ways for quantum computers to process nonlinear systems by first disguising them as linear ones.
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[:es]The Mystery of Mistletoe’s Missing Genes[:]

Mistletoes have all but shut down the powerhouses of their cells. Scientists are still trying to understand the plants’ unorthodox survival strategy.
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[:es]How Claude Shannon Invented the Future[:]

Today’s information age is only possible thanks to the groundbreaking work of a lone genius.
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[:es]Astronomers Get Their Wish, and a Cosmic Crisis Gets Worse[:]

We don’t know why the universe appears to be expanding faster than it should. New ultra-precise distance measurements have only intensified the problem.
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[:es]The New History of the Milky Way[:]

Over the past two years, astronomers have rewritten the story of our galaxy.
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[:es]How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits[:]

The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to some of the most profound questions and concepts in mathematics.