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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is releasing billions of dollars in grants to schools for adult literacy, English language instruction and other programs, the Education Department said Friday. President Donald Trump’s administration had withheld more than $6 billion in funding on July 1, as part of a review to ensure spending aligned with the White House’s priorities. The funding …

Summary: A new study reveals how evolution fine-tunes instinctive fear responses by tweaking a key neural switch deep in the brain. Comparing two deer-mouse species, researchers found that forest-dwelling mice have hypersensitive escape circuits, while open-field mice are more likely to freeze. This difference is traced to the dorsal periaqueductal gray (dPAG), a brain hub for defensive actions, which is …

Welcome to The Out-of-Touch Adult’s Guide to Kid Culture, where you have joined my new religious group, just by reading these words. This week, we’re taking a look at an online cult that got a little too real, asking why young people are branding themselves with liquid nitrogen, and discussing the generational stare-down being enacted across the counters of retail …

Sharks can be formidable predators, but when they’re flipped upside down, many species enter a trance-like state, known as tonic immobility, and are as helpless as a beetle on its back. Tonic immobility is “as close to hypnotising a shark as you can get!” Joel Gayford, a doctoral candidate of marine ecology at James Cook University in Australia, told Live …

Wells Fargo employee barred from leaving China, prompting travel freeze  San Francisco Chronicle Wells Fargo exit ban revives fears about doing business in China  Reuters Exclusive | U.S.-Based Wells Fargo Banker Blocked From Leaving China  The Wall Street Journal Wells Fargo Suspends China Travel After Banker Was Blocked From Leaving  Bloomberg China imposes “exit ban” on Wells Fargo executive, reports say  Axios Source link