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[:es]At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold[:]

Computer scientists are trying to build an AI system that can win a gold medal at the world’s premier math competition.
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[:es]How Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics[:]

Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.
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[:es]‘Trained Immunity’ Offers Hope in Fight Against Coronavirus[:]

A novel form of immunological memory that was mostly ignored for a century extends the benefits of vaccines. It could be of help in ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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.