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Scientists find protein that could help people erase bad memories

The researchers believe that this could be used to help people with PTSD, rather than choosing specific memories to erase like in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’

Dolphins living off coast of Wales have developed own ‘Welsh accent’

Whistles found to be at higher frequency than those recorded anywhere else

Tuberculosis deaths rise for first time in over a decade due to impact of Covid pandemic, says WHO

Disruption to testing and treatment services has reversed years of progress in tackling TB, one of the deadliest infectious killers on the planet

Miners had remarkably ‘sophisticated’ diet of blue cheese and beer 2,700 years ago

Scientists said this is the first molecular evidence for blue cheese and beer consumption in Europe

Can climate fiction inspire a response to help save the planet?

‘Cli-fi’ has quickly become a recognised genre as more of us imagine possible futures as a way of considering how we are going to get ourselves out of this mess, writes Chris Pak

Covid scientists subjected to ‘disturbing’ physical and sexual threats

‘Highly charged and polarised’ climate and social media anonymity create ‘ideal breeding ground for online abuse’

Humans have been using tobacco for 12,300 years, new discovery shows

The finding gives new relevance to tobacco as not just a crop domesticated by humans

Novavax vaccine trialists to be offered two extra Pfizer jabs to allow them to travel

Individuals who received vaccines yet to be approved have been left in limbo, unable to receive authorised jabs and travel abroad

Gorillas socially distancing prevents illness spreading, study finds

‘Groups interact fairly infrequently, and when they do they tend to keep their distance, rarely approaching to within that crucial one to two-metre distance’

Primate skull study sheds light on why wisdom teeth grow so late in humans

Scientists develop model to explain coordination between facial growth and mechanics of chewing muscles

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