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[:es]Brains Cling to Old Habits When Learning New Tricks[:]

Using a brain-computer interface, scientists are beginning to learn why learning is hard.
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[:es]Black Hole Echoes Would Reveal Break With Einstein’s Theory[:]

Gravitational waves have opened up new ways to test the properties of black holes — and Einstein’s theory of gravity along with them.
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[:es]Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth[:]

Researchers are building a case that long before the nervous system works, the brain sends crucial bioelectric signals to guide the growth of embryonic tissues.
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[:es]To Test Einstein’s Equations, Poke a Black Hole[:]

Two teams of researchers have made significant progress toward proving the black hole stability conjecture, a critical mathematical test of Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
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[:es]A Statistical Search for Genomic Truths[:]

The computer scientist Barbara Engelhardt develops machine-learning models and methods to scour human genomes for the elusive causes and mechanisms of disease.
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[:es]Elusive Higgs-Like State Created in Exotic Materials[:]

Two teams of physicists have created the “Higgs mode” – a link between particle physics and the physics of matter. The work could help researchers understand the strange behavior of […]
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The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-beating in a matter of hours. But researchers are struggling to apply these systems beyond […]

[:es]Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks[:]

A new study challenges one of the most celebrated and controversial ideas in network science.

[:es]Evolution Saves Species From ‘Kill the Winner’ Disasters[:]

Modelers find evidence that a combination of competition, predation and evolution will push ecosystems toward species diversity anywhere in the universe.