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[:es]How Earth’s Climate Changes Naturally (and Why Things Are Different Now)[:]

Earth’s climate has fluctuated through deep time, pushed by these 10 different causes. Here’s how each compares with modern climate change.
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[:es]What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory.[:]

To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units.
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[:es]How Gödel’s Proof Works[:]

His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Nearly a century later, we’re still coming to grips with the consequences.
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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.