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The Portal is an art installation that will connect New Yorkers and Dubliners through screen and sculpture.

A groundbreaking public technology sculpture known as "The Portal'' is set to form a visual bridge between New York City and Dublin, Ireland, launching this spring.

Mature oligodendrocytes, crucial for brain function and myelin production, have an unusually prolonged death process after damage, surviving up to 45 days post-trauma, a stark contrast to the rapid demise of their younger counterparts within 24 hours.

Lost Forty Brewing has a specially-made beer for the upcoming total solar eclipse in April.

UB Provost Scott Weber and Vice President for Research and Economic Development Venu Govindaraju welcomed New York Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes and four other state legislators to UB last

Events planned for prevention month

It’s something of a cosmic accident that total solar eclipses happen at all. Over time, the moon’s widening orbit will make them impossible.

Vacation plans

Indianapolis is directly in the path of totality, and although the moon will only cover the sun for 3-4 minutes — depending on where you are located — organizations around the city are planning all-day celebrations.

UC San Diego Professor of Physics Nigel Goldenfeld has shown in theoretical models of turbulence that even molecular motions can create large-scale patterns of