Dartmouth College graduate student Kexin Cai, who was reported missing last week, was located Monday in the Connecticut River. Police do not suspect any foul play at this time.
Published in Nature Communications, an international collaboration between researchers at the University of Minnesota and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies investigated how highly organized patterns of neural activity emerge during development. They found the cortex of the brain can transform unorganized inputs into highly organized patterns of activity—demonstrating self-organization.