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• 'Feel good' brain messenger can be willfully controlled, new study reveals July 23, 2021
  Researchers have discovered that spontaneous impulses of dopamine, the neurological messenger known as the brain's 'feel good' chemical, occur in the brain of mice. The study found that mice can willfully manipulate these random dopamine pulses for reward.
• Potential role of 'junk DNA' sequence in aging, cancer July 23, 2021
  Researchers have recently identified a DNA region known as VNTR2-1 that appears to drive the activity of the telomerase gene, which has been shown to prevent aging in certain types of cells. Knowing how the telomerase gene is regulated and activated and why it is only active in certain cell types could someday be the […]
• Anatomy of the red planet: Mars-quakes reveal interior July 22, 2021
  Researchers have been able to use seismic data to look inside Mars for the first time. They measured the crust, mantle and core and narrowed down their composition.
• Eyes wide shut: How newborn mammals dream the world they're entering July 22, 2021
  As a newborn mammal opens its eyes for the first time, it can already make visual sense of the world around it. But how does this happen before they have experienced sight?
• Clever cockatoos learn through social interaction, study finds July 22, 2021
  Scientists have shown that cockatoos can learn from each other a unique skill -- lifting garbage bin lids to gather food. The research confirms that cockatoos spread this novel behavior through social learning.