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[:es]Tetrahedron Solutions Finally Proved Decades After Computer Search[:]

Four mathematicians have cataloged all the tetrahedra with rational angles, resolving a question about basic geometric shapes using techniques from number theory.
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[:es]The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic[:]

In the fight against COVID-19, disease modelers have struggled with misunderstanding and misuse of their work. They have also come to realize how unready the state of modeling was for […]
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[:es]Topology 101: The Hole Truth[:]

The relationships among the properties of flexible shapes have fascinated mathematicians for centuries.
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[:es]Physicists Study How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide[:]

Since they can’t prod actual universes as they inflate and bump into each other in the hypothetical multiverse, physicists are studying digital and physical analogs of the process.
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[:es]Secret Ingredient Found to Power Supernovas[:]

Three-dimensional supernova simulations have solved the mystery of why they explode at all.
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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.