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[:es]Machine Learning Takes On Antibiotic Resistance[:]

To combat resistant bacteria and refill the trickling antibiotic pipeline, scientists are getting help from deep learning networks.
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[:es]Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math[:]

Computer scientists established a new boundary on computationally verifiable knowledge. In doing so, they solved major open problems in quantum mechanics and pure mathematics.
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[:es]New Wrinkle Added to Cosmology’s Hubble Crisis[:]

A problem confronts cosmology: Two independent measurements of the universe’s expansion give incompatible answers. Now a third method, advanced by an astronomy pioneer, appears to bridge the divide.
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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.