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[:es]In Brain Waves, Scientists See Neurons Juggle Possible Futures[:]

Faced with a decision, the brain weighs its options by bundling them into rapidly alternating cycles of brain waves.
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[:es]‘Radical Change’ Needed After Latest Neutron Star Collision[:]

A recent neutron star merger has defied astronomers’ expectations, leading them to question longstanding ideas about neutron stars and the supernovas that create them. “We have to go back to […]
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[:es]New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery[:]

By watching for a special kind of flare, astronomers have identified the fingerprints of an Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star.
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[:es]The Map of Mathematics[:]

Here is a map of mathematics as it stands today, mathematics as it is practiced by mathematicians.
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[:es]New Clues About ‘Ambigram’ Viruses With Strange Reversible Genes[:]

For decades, scientists have been intrigued by tiny viruses whose genetic material can be read both forward and backward. New research begins to explain this puzzling property.
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[:es]Color-Changing Material Unites the Math and Physics of Knots[:]

Mathematicians have studied knots for centuries, but a new material is showing why some knots are better than others.
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[:es]The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves[:]

Rogue waves — enigmatic giants of the sea — were thought to be caused by two different mechanisms. But a new idea that borrows from the hinterlands of probability theory […]
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[:es]Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem.[:]

By teaching machines to understand our true desires, one scientist hopes to avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of having them do what we command.
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[:es]How Ancient Light Reveals the Universe’s Contents[:]

A photograph of the infant cosmos reveals the precise amounts of dark matter and dark energy in the universe, leaving precious little room for argument.