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[:es]A Short Guide to Hard Problems[:]
What’s easy for a computer to do, and what’s almost impossible? Those questions form the core of computational complexity. We present a map of the landscape.
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[:es]To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future[:]
A controversial theory suggests that perception, motor control, memory and other brain functions all depend on comparisons between ongoing actual experiences and the brain’s modeled expectations.
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[:es]Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?[:]
Astronomers suspect that there’s a large planet hiding out in the distant fringes of the solar system. At a recent workshop, they brainstormed ways to coax it into view.
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[:es]Mathematicians Tame Turbulence in Flattened Fluids[:]
By squeezing fluids into flat sheets, researchers can get a handle on the strange ways that turbulence feeds energy into a system instead of eating it away.
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[:es]Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait[:]
The more closely geneticists look at complex traits and diseases, the harder it gets to find active genes that don’t influence them.
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[:es]The Physics of Glass Opens a Window Into Biology[:]
Lisa Manning, an associate professor of physics at Syracuse University, is widely admired for her success in using insights from physics to explain developmental biology. As she has shown, mathematical […]
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[:es]Why Earth’s Cracked Crust May Be Essential for Life[:]
Life needs more than water alone. Recent discoveries suggest that plate tectonics has played a critical role in nourishing life on Earth. The findings carry major consequences for the search […]
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[:es]There Are No Laws of Physics. There’s Only the Landscape.[:]
Scientists seek a single description of reality. But modern physics allows for many different descriptions, many equivalent to one another, connected through a vast landscape of mathematical possibility.
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[:es]The Slippery Math of Causation[:]
If a forest is burning and we don’t know what’s responsible, does it have a cause?