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Neuroscientists identify a CRF-neuron "switch" in the brain's BNST region that, when activated, allows for significantly faster unlearning of fear responses.

Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible.

The biological necessity of the Y chromosome is undergoing a fundamental reassessment as evidence confirms its disappearance ...

Amphibians and reptiles face an unprecedented global extinction crisis, with a significant proportion of species threatened with disappearance. Amphibians ...

What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, at least one of whom works on counterterrorism, went to the home of a former member of a climate activism group for questioning last week, potentially signaling ...

When Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver proposed their famous communication model in 1948, they could hardly have imagined that ...