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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.

[: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 the drawing board.”

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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 has the potential to predict them all.

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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.