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Warming temperatures melt snow revealing rock and natural debris where Mt Everest's glaciers once trawled.

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Earth centre's irregular turn

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Damaged brains can find a way

When the memory-forming centre of a rat's brain is damaged, it reacts by building new circuitry in other parts of the brain, research finds.

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