Minneapolis
January 6, 2016
L to R: Retired teacher Jack Netland, Physical science teacher at North Jr. High, and Physics teacher at Hopkins, Maritza Roberto and Maple Grove HS s

University of Minnesota Physics Force troupe wows with physics tricks

Science
January 6, 2016

Hey, chemistry students, toss out your periodic table

Science
December 31, 2015

Health briefs: Children's asthma rates fall in U.S.

Science
December 31, 2015
An Olympus duodenoscope is cleaned in the GI unit at LA County/USC Medical Center on Nov. 9, 2015. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Superbug deaths continued after flawed scopes were discovered

Science
December 31, 2015

Science briefs: Elephants adapt social order after poaching

Science
December 31, 2015
In this Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006, file photo, an Atlas V rocket that carried the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto lifts off at the Cape Canaveral Air F

2015 boldly went where we have not gone before

Science
December 24, 2015

Science briefs: Vultures start their meals at the bottom

Science
December 24, 2015
In this Nov. 2, 2015 photo, 30-year-old Bhagwati Chauhan, who gave birth to a Canadian couple's child on Oct. 27, touches the 9-month pregnant belly o

India's lucrative surrogacy business has been shut down

Science
December 24, 2015

Health briefs: Shingles linked to risk of heart attack, stroke

Local
December 24, 2015

Health beat: Gene screening increases IVF clinic's chances of success

Science
December 24, 2015
Jose Garcia Flores, 60, listens to Dr. Carin van Zyl as she explains that chemotherapy might not be an option to treat his colon cancer on Oct. 13, 20

California is fifth state to let doctors prescribe lethal medicine to terminally ill patients

Terminally ill patients who want to die can ask for them.
Politics
December 22, 2015
The photo provided by amateur Illinois bee spotter Johanna James-Heinz, shows a rusty-patched bumblebee, on Aug. 14, 2008, in Peoria, Ill. It is one o

Wild bees losing out to corn in Minnesota, Midwest, study says

Wild pollinators declined across 23 percent of the country, study found.
Science
December 19, 2015
In the driver’s seat: It took the team just six weeks to design, print and assemble the Shelby Cobra replica.

3-D printers are building the cars of the future

3-D printers are pushing the boundaries of what is possible, even building dream machines.
Local
December 17, 2015
As Lake Superior struggled to freeze over, pancake ice developed in the bay near Cove Point. Researchers say Lake Superior is warming even faster than

World's lakes are warming up, even Superior, scientists warn

One expert says the thick sheets of ice that blanketed Lake Superior for the past two winters did nothing to change the fact that it, too, is growing ever warmer.
Science
December 12, 2015
Kenneth Huber, middle, an interventional cardiologist with Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, deploys a coronary stent through the femoral arte

Doctors moving away from angioplasty, rely on diet, exercise

In quiet revolution backed by data, more doctors are opting to treat coronary disease with diet and exercise.
Local
December 11, 2015

Minnesota gets top marks in two national health care scorecards

Science
December 11, 2015

Health briefs: Exercise may aid brain's 'rewiring'

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