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To trigger the same responses in stressed mice as in unstressed mice, sounds need to be louder.  (Credit: Szasz-Fabian Jozsef/Shutterstock)

This tiny mouse senses sounds differently when stressed

If you aren’t a good listener when you’re stressed, you aren’t alone. Mice aren’t either. 

How Does Stress Impact Listening? For Mice, They Don't Hear as Well

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The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a collision with the Milky Way is inevitable.

Supermassive Black Hole Heading Towards The Milky Way Galaxy  

Area near the cave where the Red Lady was found. (Credit: agaglowala/Shutterstock) 

Bendy Roads to Potes, Cantabria, Picos de Europa National Park, Northern Spain

Learn about the El Mirón cave in northern Spain, home to the unusually red bones of a buried woman and ancient carnivores that came to scavenge for leftovers.

DNA From Cave Dirt Unearths Genetic Roots of the Red Lady of El Mirón

Schematic depiction of production and incorporation of cosmogenic 10Be into ferromanganese crusts. (Credit: HZDR / blrck.de)

Schematic depiction of production and incorporation of cosmogenic 10Be into ferromanganese crusts

Learn how time scales for objects thousands versus millions of years old could be better synchronized.

Ocean Floor Anomaly Could Provide a New Way to Mark Time 

Reconstruction of the new plesiosaur with scales on the flipper and smooth scale-less skin along the body as informed by this new plesiosaur fossil. This is a significant update to how we reconstruct plesiosaurs which has otherwise not changed substantially since their initial discovery more than 200 years ago. (Credit: Joschua Knüppe)

Reconstruction of the new plesiosaur

Dive into the findings of the first detailed study of plesiosaur skin, which was a strange mosaic of textures.

183-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals That Plesiosaur Skin Was Smooth and Scaly

The ring of light surrounding the centre of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by ESA’s Euclid telescope, is a stunning example of an Einstein ring. NGC 6505 is acting as a gravitational lens, bending light from a galaxy far behind it. The almost perfect alignment of NGC 6505 and the background galaxy has bent and magnified the light from the background galaxy into a spectacular ring. This rare phenomenon was first theorised to exist by Einstein in his general theory of relativity.
This wide field shows the extended stellar halo of NGC 6505 and showcases the Einstein ring, surrounded by colourful foreground stars and background galaxies. (Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, T. Li)

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