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String theory has long been presented as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the Universe. Yet, at the beginning of the 21st century, it became apparent that most ...

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Scientists successfully borrow concepts from string theory to explain the network architecture of branching biological systems like neurons ...