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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.
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[:es]An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence[:]

Having solved a central mystery about the “twirliness” of tornadoes and other types of vortices, William Irvine has set his sights on turbulence, the white whale of classical physics.
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[:es]Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron[:]

Three mathematicians have resolved a fundamental question about straight paths on the 12-sided Platonic solid.
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[:es]How Close Are Computers to Automating Mathematical Reasoning?[:]

AI tools are shaping next-generation theorem provers, and with them the relationship between math and machine.
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[:es]How Physics Found a Geometric Structure for Math to Play With[:]

Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about.
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[:es]Mathematicians Will Never Stop Proving the Prime Number Theorem[:]

Why do mathematicians enjoy proving the same results in different ways?
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[:es]How the Bits of Quantum Gravity Can Buzz[:]

New calculations show how hypothetical particles called gravitons would give rise to a special kind of noise.