Science
Scientists emerge from Hawaiian isolation after simulating life on Mars
A NASA-funded study tracked scientists cut off from world for eight months to gain data for a future Mars mission.
Variety
June 18: 2015: U faulted for sloppy reporting in drug studies
A second review of industry-funded drug trials at the University of Minnesota has found lapses in reporting of adverse events such as injuries, but no deaths beyond the suicide of Dan Markingson a decade ago.
Science
Argentine province requires hospital clowns by law
Tapping into the healing power of laughter, specially trained clowns will be hired by public hospitals in Argentina's largest province.
Nation
Government extends endangered status to captive chimps
Move extends endangered status to all the primates.
Business
Billionaire tech giants in race to develop cheaper spaceflight
Three tech titans are racing to develop spacecraft aimed at making exploring space as routine as a typical airline flight.
Politics
Minnesota researchers race to decode secrets of deadly bird flu
The worst avian flu outbreak in the nation's history has spawned a series of investigations by Minnesota disease researchers to figure out why this new and exceptionally deadly virus is behaving in such bizarre ways.
Politics
Federal plan calls for billion plants to help save monarch butterflies
An ambitious federal plan calls for a billion milkweed plants along a Duluth-to-Texas corridor traveled by butterflies.
Science
June 6, 2015: Fractured skull found in Spain turns into 430,000-year-old whodunit
Archaeologists say they have discovered the earliest known evidence of a human ancestor who was murdered.
Science
Israel creates a water revolution
Israel solved supply problem by artificially producing more than half its water.
Science
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