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[:es]What Is a Particle?[:]

It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ […]
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[:es]Computer Scientists Achieve ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography[:]

A cryptographic master tool called indistinguishability obfuscation has for years seemed too good to be true. Three researchers have figured out that it can work.
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[:es]Inside the Secret Math Society Known Simply as Nicolas Bourbaki[:]

For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought.
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[:es]Disorder Persists in Larger Graphs, New Math Proof Finds[:]

David Conlon and Asaf Ferber have raised the lower bound for multicolor “Ramsey numbers,” which quantify how big graphs can get before patterns inevitably emerge.
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[:es]Brain Cell DNA Refolds Itself to Aid Memory Recall[:]

Researchers see structural changes in genetic material that allow memories to strengthen when remembered.
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[:es]The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End[:]

In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information, which seems impossible by definition. The work appears to resolve a paradox that Stephen Hawking […]
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[:es]The Epigenetic Secrets Behind Dopamine, Drug Addiction and Depression[:]

New research links serotonin and dopamine not just to addiction and depression, but to the ability to control genes.
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[:es]Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light[:]

Recent experiments show that particles should be able to go faster than light when they quantum mechanically “tunnel” through walls.
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[:es]A Physicist’s Approach to Biology Brings Ecological Insights[:]

The physicist Jeff Gore tests theories about microbe communities experimentally and finds new rules governing ecological stability.