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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.
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[:es]Why Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces[:]

We asked four physicists why gravity stands out among the forces of nature. We got four different answers.
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[:es]Males Are the Taller Sex. Estrogen, Not Fights for Mates, May Be Why.[:]

To explain why men are on average taller than women, scientists theorized about competition for mates. But the effects of estrogen on bone growth may be answer enough.
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[:es]The ‘Useless’ Perspective That Transformed Mathematics[:]

Representation theory was initially dismissed. Today, it’s central to much of mathematics.