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[:eu]Infant Brains Reveal How the Mind Gets Built[:]
Is the brain a blank slate, or is it wired from birth to understand the world? An ambitious new study put infants into an MRI machine to reveal a neural […]
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[:eu]3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems[:]
By folding fractals into 3-D objects, a mathematical duo hopes to gain new insight into simple equations.
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[:eu]Explorers Find Passage to Earth’s Dark Age[:]
Geochemical signals from deep inside Earth are beginning to shed light on the planet’s first 50 million years, a formative period long viewed as inaccessible to science.
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[:eu]In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter[:]
Elena Aprile now leads the world’s most sensitive dark-matter search. But before she could build her first detector, she had to make herself out of titanium.
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[:eu]Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay[:]
Physicists have failed to find disintegrating protons, throwing into limbo the beloved theory that the forces of nature were unified at the beginning of time.
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[:eu]On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle[:]
Janet Conrad has a plan to catch the sterile neutrino — an elusive particle, possibly glimpsed by a number of experiments, that would upend what we know about the subatomic […]
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[:eu]The Case Against Dark Matter[:]
A proposed theory of gravity does away with dark matter, even as new astrophysical findings challenge the need for galaxies full of the invisible mystery particles.
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[:es]Scientists Seek to Update Evolution[:]
Recent discoveries have led some researchers to argue that the modern evolutionary synthesis needs to be amended.
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[:en]Strange Numbers Found in Particle Collisions[:]
An unexpected connection has emerged between the results of physics experiments and an important, seemingly unrelated set of numbers in pure mathematics.