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[:es]The Math of Social Distancing Is a Lesson in Geometry[:]

How to safely reopen offices, schools and other public spaces while keeping people six feet apart comes down to a question mathematicians have been studying for centuries.
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[:es]How and Why Computers Roll Loaded Dice[:]

Researchers are one step closer to injecting probability into deterministic machines.
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[:es]How Your Heart Influences What You Perceive and Fear[:]

The heartbeat and other bodily processes play a surprising role in shaping perception and cognition.
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[:es]The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View[:]

Astronomers are discovering that magnetic fields permeate much of the cosmos. If these fields date back to the Big Bang, they could solve a major cosmological mystery.
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[:es]The Tricky Math of Herd Immunity for COVID-19[:]

Herd immunity differs from place to place, and many factors influence how it’s calculated.
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[:es]Cosmic Rays May Explain Life’s Bias for Right-Handed DNA[:]

Cosmic rays may have given right-handed genetic helixes an evolutionary edge at the beginning of life’s history.
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[:es]New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles[:]

While locked down due to COVID-19, Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb figured out how to prove a version of the “rectangular peg problem.”
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$[:es]The Two Forms of Mathematical Beauty[:]$

[:es]The Two Forms of Mathematical Beauty[:]

Mathematicians typically appreciate either generic or exceptional beauty in their work, but one type is more useful in describing the universe.
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[:es]Dark Matter Experiment Finds Unexplained Signal[:]

Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data. One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics.