Why coordination improves after brain circuits mature: Astrocytes may be the missing link

A new study reveals that astrocytes—star-shaped support cells traditionally viewed as passive partners of neurons—play a ...
The Indianapolis Star

When will the Polar Vortex return? Here's your late-winter forecast.

Hello, world? Can I come out of hibernation yet? Folks in the central and eastern United States who've endured weeks of bitter cold and snow are wondering: Is winter over? Will the polar vortex come ...
The New York Times

ICE Hired Thousands While the Rest of the Immigration System Shrank

With more ICE agents and fewer judges and asylum officers, the balance of the federal immigration apparatus has shifted. By Andrea Fuller Albert Sun and Eileen Sullivan The reporters looked at more ...
AOL

Winter in the West has been alarmingly mild. Here's why that's bad.

While the East may have been plunged into a snowy deep freeze this winter, weather data shows something perhaps more notable is happening in the West, where snowpack has been low and temperatures high ...
The News Journal

Polar vortex is gripping Delaware. When will it get warmer

Wind chills are below zero degrees throughout the First State as a polar vortex grips the region. Wilmington, Dover and Lewes are all reading wind chills below zero degrees as bitter cold winds from ...
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And the apparatus has collapsed | Apparatus malfunctions

Sorry, had to re-upload (copyrights). Donald Trump approval rating suddenly changes direction Peter Attia '60 Minutes' segment pulled in wake of Epstein files uproar ...
Rolling Stone

Good Art Has Never Been Safe: Creativity, Conflict and the Power of Polarity

When Bob Dylan plugged in an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, the boos came fast and loud. Johnny Cash played Folsom Prison when respectable artists wouldn’t go near convicts. Clint ...
IFLScience

Arctic Means “Bear”, And Antarctic Means “Opposite Bear”, But It Has Nothing To Do With Polar Bears

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...
The Conversation

The rise of Reza Pahlavi: Iranian opposition leader or opportunist?

Eric Lob is affiliated with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Pahlavi emerged during the recent upheaval as a prominent political dissident in exile who encouraged and inspired Iranians ...