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    March 16, 2018
    The city motto for Little Falls, Minn., is, "The Town Where the Mississippi Pauses." It pauses more often in the winter when some of the flow is slowed by freezing temperatures that turn some of the Mississippi River into ice. Aviator Charles Lindbergh was from Little Falls and tours are offered of his boyhood home. Washington Post photo by Michael S. Williamson
    Taming the mighty Mississippi: Troubles run deep in changing national waterway
    ALONG THE RIVER - The Mississippi runs the spine of America, touching 10 states and draining waters from 21 more, a vast waterway with a rich...
    news/science-and-natureMarch 16, 2018 - 10:59am
    A problem the rest of the country shares with Toys R Us: Not enough babies
    There are endless reasons a big box toy store would collapse during a retail apocalypse - and Toys R Us acknowledged a number of them in its...
    business/retailMarch 16, 2018 - 10:51am
    March 14, 2018
    Monsanto Company logo from Wikimedia Commons.
    Monsanto's cancer fight judge pictures weed killer showers
    Picture Iowa farmers bathing in Roundup weed killer. That was a federal judge's takeaway after seeing slides that "sort of seared into my brain"...
    business/agricultureMarch 14, 2018 - 11:12am
    Monsanto Company logo from Wikimedia Commons.
    Monsanto's cancer fight judge pictures weed killer showers
    Picture Iowa farmers bathing in Roundup weed killer. That was a federal judge's takeaway after seeing slides that "sort of seared into my brain"...
    business/agricultureMarch 14, 2018 - 11:12am
    FILE — Stephen Hawking, the physicist and author, at a news conference to announce the space exploration initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" at One World Observatory in lower Manhattan, April 12, 2016. (Karsten Moran/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    'May you keep flying like superman in microgravity': Tributes pour in for physicist Stephen Hawking, dead at 76
    LONDON - Tributes from around the world began to pour in Wednesday for Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most famous scientists, who died age...
    news/science-and-natureMarch 14, 2018 - 6:29am
    March 8, 2018
    A rendering of China's 9½-ton space station, Tiangong-1. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
    China's space lab will soon crash to Earth. Scientists think they know where - sort of.
    Heads up, Spain and Portugal. And France. Maybe you, too, Greece. China's 9½-ton space station, Tiangong-1, will come falling from space soon,...
    news/science-and-natureMarch 8, 2018 - 7:34am
    February 28, 2018
    Oklahoma toughens oil fracking rules as shale earthquakes climb
    Oklahoma is tightening its rules for fracking after studying a new cluster of earthquakes in one of the hottest U.S. regions for drilling. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission announced that all explorers within certain areas must use equipment known as a seismic array, which detects...
    business/energy-and-miningFebruary 28, 2018 - 1:40pm
    February 22, 2018
    The plutonium at Hierapolis, Turkey / Wikimedia Commons
    Scientists discover the secret to ancient Roman 'Gate to Hell'
    Two millennia ago, a small Greco-Roman temple in present-day Turkey awed and enthralled its residents. Just beyond its stone gate, in a grotto...
    news/educationFebruary 22, 2018 - 1:23pm
    February 6, 2018
    Courtesy / Stanford University School of Medicine
    Breakthrough cancer ‘vaccine’ may eventually eliminate tumors in rapid, inexpensive way, researchers find
    STANFORD, Calif. - Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in California have developed a breakthrough cancer treatment that eliminates...
    business/healthcareFebruary 6, 2018 - 4:30pm
    February 4, 2018
    Artist view of the the observatory and "Nightsky Patio" for public observing on top of Marshall W. Alworth Hall. Courtesy of UMD
    Dreaming of the stars: Observatory dome returns to UMD as part of larger plan
    MOOSE LAKE, Minn. — An observatory dome is a curious machine — one that appears static but is dynamic when put to use. It's got a...
    news/educationFebruary 4, 2018 - 6:05am
    January 30, 2018
    An artist's reconstruction of the new titanosaurian dinosaur Mansourasaurus shahinae on a coastline in what is now the Western Desert of Egypt approximately 80 million years ago. MUST CREDIT: Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
    Scientists discover 'the Holy Grail of dinosaurs' in Africa
    Paleontologist Matthew Lamanna can still remember the day in 2014 when a colleague, Hesham Sallam, emailed him detailed pictures of fossils that...
    news/science-and-natureJanuary 30, 2018 - 3:42pm
    January 29, 2018
    New study links wolf numbers to moose calf survival
    DULUTH — In yet another effort to untangle the mystery behind Minnesota's diminished moose population, renowned wolf researcher David...
    news/science-and-natureJanuary 29, 2018 - 7:11pm
    January 25, 2018
    Doomsday Clock just moved: It's now 2 minutes to 'midnight,' the symbolic hour of the apocalypse
    Alexa, what time is the apocalypse? Ulp. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced the symbolic Doomsday Clock a notch closer to the end of humanity Thursday, moving it ahead by 30 seconds. It is now set at two minutes to "midnight." In moving the clock 30 seconds closer to the...
    news/science-and-natureJanuary 25, 2018 - 7:56pm
    A view from below of Misliya Cave, on the western slopes of Mount Carmel in Israel. MUST CREDIT: Handout photo by Mina Weinstein-Evron/Haifa University
    Scientists discover the oldest human fossils outside Africa
    An ancient jawbone uncovered from a collapsed cave on the coast of Israel is at least 175,000 years old, and it belonged to a member of our own...
    news/science-and-natureJanuary 25, 2018 - 4:17pm
    January 18, 2018
    2017 was among the hottest years ever recorded, government scientists reported Thursday. : NOAA graphic
    2017 was among the planet's hottest years on record, government scientists report
    2017 was among the hottest years ever recorded, government scientists reported Thursday, Jan. 18. The year was the second-hottest in recorded...
    newsJanuary 18, 2018 - 4:06pm
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