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Humans

Memories can be disconnected – and it could help those with PTSD

An innocuous smell or sound can be enough to trigger painful memories of trauma. Now researchers have found a way to disconnect linked memories in mice.

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Life

Embryonic education: How learning begins long before birth

Features

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Life

New hermit crab has candy-stick legs and a giant spoon-like claw

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Health

A meaning to life: How a sense of purpose can keep you healthy

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Life

Whale sharks' secrets revealed by live-tracking aquatic drones

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Life

Foxes may confuse predators by rubbing themselves in puma scent

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Life

Seals hunt down hidden fish by sensing their breath in the sand

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Life

Majority of primate species may vanish in next 25 to 50 years

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Health

Cellular recovery: How self-help could aid the damaged brain

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Life

Breath of life: Did animals evolve without oxygen?

By suffocating sponges and searching underwater lakes we're overturning the story of how complex life began on Earth

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Life

Electronic gene control could let us plug bacteria into devices

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Life

Antelope revived in Sahara years after going extinct in the wild

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Earth

Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago

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Life

Harvester ants farm by planting seeds to eat once they germinate

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