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[:es]Alchemy Arrives in a Burst of Light[:]

Researchers have shown how to effectively transform one material into another using a finely shaped laser pulse.
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[:es]Some Physicists See Signs of Cosmic Strings From the Big Bang[:]

Subtle aberrations in the clockwork blinking of stars could become “the result of the century.” That’s if the distortions are produced by a network of giant filaments left over from […]
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[:es]Physicists Argue That Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter[:]

It was an old idea of Stephen Hawking’s: Unseen “primordial” black holes might be the hidden dark matter. It fell out of favor for decades, but a new series of […]
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[:es]At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold[:]

Computer scientists are trying to build an AI system that can win a gold medal at the world’s premier math competition.
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[:es]How Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics[:]

Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.
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[:es]‘Trained Immunity’ Offers Hope in Fight Against Coronavirus[:]

A novel form of immunological memory that was mostly ignored for a century extends the benefits of vaccines. It could be of help in ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
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[:es]How Two Became One: Origins of a Mysterious Symbiosis Found[:]

Carpenter ants need endosymbiotic bacteria to guide the early development of their embryos. New work has reconstructed how this deep partnership evolved.
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[:es]A New Cosmic Tension: The Universe Might Be Too Thin[:]

Cosmologists have concluded that the universe doesn’t appear to clump as much as it should. Could both of cosmology’s big puzzles share a single fix?
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[:es]By Losing Genes, Life Often Evolved More Complexity[:]

Recent major surveys show that reductions in genomic complexity — including the loss of key genes — have successfully shaped the evolution of life throughout history.