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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.
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[:es]New Clues to Chemical Origins of Metabolism at Dawn of Life[:]

The ingredients for reactions ancestral to metabolism could have formed very easily in the primordial soup, new work suggests.
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[:es]Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time[:]

New research finds that the subjective experience of time is linked to learning, thwarted expectations and neural fatigue.
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[:es]Building the Mathematical Library of the Future[:]

A small community of mathematicians is using a software program called Lean to build a new digital repository. They hope it represents the future of their field.
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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.