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A new method for studying how mice react to sounds that they associate with a painful stimulus allows researchers to study more complex fear responses.

Families of Mongolian gerbils communicate using different vocal patterns, which may help individuals identify their relatives.

Tissues routinely discarded after human births may be converted into treatments that help reduce post-surgical pain.

A combination of DNA sampling and fossils have allowed researchers to study how environmental changes impacted the evolutionary history of Belidae beetles.

Bull ants use the patterns created when moonlight is polarised by the atmosphere to navigate back to their nests at night.

Three Wnt signaling proteins help to organize cells in the gonads of a nematode worm.

A molecular machine called the Smc5/6 complex helps repair an intricate form of genetic damage.

Plasmodium falciparum, which is responsible for the most fatal forms of malaria, needs a protein called MORC to maintain the structure of its DNA.