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Letting go of learned fears is difficult. New research findings reveal that the environment in which we learn the fear could also play a crucial role in unlearning it.

The brain is constantly storing new experiences that it has to integrate into the jumble of existing memories. Surprisingly, it does not overwrite previous memory traces in the process.

We all know what it’s like when the penny suddenly drops. Animals too experience such moments of insight. They could prove useful for research, according to Ekrem Dere.

Rocks undergo changes over millions of years. Yet it is possible to extract information from them about the climate at the time of their formation.

When water is split electrolytically, the result is typically hydrogen – and useless oxygen. Instead of oxygen, you can also produce a useful product. If you know how.