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A high-resolution study in mice suggests that a fear memory is built from distinct hippocampal cell groups recruited at different moments of learning, refining rather than overturning prevailing memory theory.
A RHIC experiment has linked spin correlations in short-lived hyperons to correlated strange-quark pairs in the quantum vacuum, opening a new experimental route into how the strong force makes most visible mass possible.
A new analysis links estrogen-only menopausal hormone therapy with fewer clinical and pathological signs of Alzheimer’s disease, but its retrospective design means it cannot establish prevention or guide treatment on its own.
The retraction of a widely shared excess-mortality paper highlights the difference between documenting an alarming population trend and proving what caused it.
An unusual report linking heart transplantation with skin-cancer remission and a new bee-venom allergy illustrates how an organ graft can alter far more than circulation.
Early human data suggest that CRISPR-equipped bacteriophages can reduce targeted E. coli in the gut without broadly disrupting the microbiome, but their role in treating severe drug-resistant infections remains unproven.
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on August 10, 2026, exposing how a deep rupture within a complex plate-boundary region can produce widespread shaking and severe local damage.
A record July for global ocean surface temperatures underscores how long-term greenhouse-gas warming and a developing El Niño are combining to elevate climate risks worldwide.
Microgravity does not stop astronauts from swallowing, but it can alter the sensory, physiological and practical conditions that make eating and drinking reliable over long missions.
Europe’s severe wildfire seasons are turning long-buried munitions into an immediate emergency-response problem, forcing fire services and bomb-disposal specialists to work around the same advancing flames.
A new review of 427 recorded cross-species social encounters shows that primates sometimes play, groom and care for other animals, but the evidence does not establish human-like pet keeping.
A major UK-based analysis finds that the subjective experience of loneliness may have broader health consequences than the number of social contacts alone, while underscoring that neither measure tells the whole causal story.
