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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.
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[:es]An Ethical Future for Brain Organoids Takes Shape[:]

Collaborations in progress between ethicists and biologists seek to head off challenges raised by lab-grown “organoids” as they become increasingly similar to human brain tissue.
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[:es]How Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm[:]

A curious physicist has discovered an unexpected link between theoretical block collisions and a famed quantum search algorithm.
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[:es]The Voyage to the End of Ice[:]

Arctic ice is disappearing — the question is how fast. Summer sea ice could endure 100 more years, or it could vanish later this decade, with disastrous consequences for the […]