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[:es]A Digital Locksmith Has Decoded Biology’s Molecular Keys[:]

Neural networks have been taught to quickly read the surfaces of proteins — molecules critical to many biological processes. The advance is already being used to create defenses for the […]
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[:es]In Mathematics, It Often Takes a Good Map to Find Answers[:]

Mathematicians try to figure out when problems can be solved using current knowledge — and when they have to chart a new path instead.
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[:es]Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order[:]

By chewing on the problems posed by “extremal” black holes, physicists have exposed a surprising and universal connection between energy and entropy.
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[:es]Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms[:]

Studies of collective behavior usually focus on how crowds of organisms coordinate their actions. But what if the individuals that don’t participate have just as much to tell us?
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[:es]Egg Laying or Live Birth: How Evolution Chooses[:]

A lizard that both lays eggs and gives birth to live young is helping scientists understand how and why these forms of reproduction evolved.
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[:es]Mathematician Measures the Repulsive Force Within Polynomials[:]

Vesselin Dimitrov’s proof of the Schinzel-Zassenhaus conjecture quantifies the way special values of polynomials push each other apart.
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[:es]‘Milestone’ Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles[:]

Anyons don’t fit into either of the two known particle kingdoms. To find them, physicists had to erase the third dimension.
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[:es]What Goes On in a Proton? Quark Math Still Conflicts With Experiments.[:]

Two ways of approximating the ultra-complicated math that governs quark particles have recently come into conflict, leaving physicists unsure what their decades-old theory predicts.
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[:es]What Might Be Speeding Up the Universe’s Expansion?[:]

Physicists have proposed extra cosmic ingredients that could explain the faster-than-expected expansion of space.