News
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Enzyme revives long-term memories
Increasing levels of a natural substance in the brain helps rats remember old times.
- Life
Good gene type for cancer bad for stroke
A DNA variant that helps prevent tumors may diminish the brain’s recovery after an interruption in blood supply.
- Space
Sun’s doldrums likely to last
Despite a recent flare, solar physicists project low activity for up to a decade.
- Life
Hagfish may eat through their skin
The odd dining habits of carrion-eating protovertebrates may be relevant to the evolutionary transition to land.
- Humans
Smelling a rat in a bag of chips
A forensic scientist shares tales from a very special victims unit.
