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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.
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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.