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[:es]The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding[:]

Physicists plan to leave no stone unturned, checking whether dark matter tickles different types of detectors, nudges starlight, warms planetary cores or even lodges in rocks.
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[:es]Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology[:]

An exercise in pure mathematics has led to a wide-ranging theory of how the world comes together.
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[:es]Scientists Find Vital Genes Evolving in Genome’s Junkyard[:]

Even genes essential for life can be caught in an evolutionary arms race that forces them to change or be replaced.
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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 […]