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June 22, 2019
MPCA environmental analyst Jeff Karen displays some of the testing equipment in their St. Paul office. ] By most measures air quality in Minnesota has

Wildfires, lack of rain pose threat to Minnesota's air quality

Smoke from Canada could be especially bad this year.
West Metro
June 22, 2019
FILE - This 2016 file photo provided by The Xerces Society shows a rusty patched bumblebee in Minnesota. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday

Southwest light rail extension could harm habitat of endangered bumblebees

Opponents of light-rail line say construction is destroying habitat in Minneapolis.
Duluth
June 22, 2019
Minnesota United goalkeeper Matt Lampson (28) talked with Nathalia Hawley, 14, who was diagnosed with the bone cancer osteosarcoma when she was in six

Duluth teen Nat Hawley's life was short, but her legacy lives on

Fundraising in memory of "Nat" Hawley could expand research of rare cancer that took her life.
Science
June 22, 2019

People in higher social classes often overestimate their abilities

Science
June 20, 2019
STANFORD, CA - MAY 24: Stanford University professor Phyllis Gardner poses for a portrait on May 24, 2019, in Stanford, Calif. Gardner's blunt critici

Stanford medicine professor emerges as the star in Theranos saga

Science
June 20, 2019

Health briefs: Nonstick compounds found in meat, seafood

Science
June 20, 2019
FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2018 file photo, an embryo receives a small dose of Cas9 protein and PCSK9 sgRNA in a microscope in a laboratory in Shenzhen in

Mutation used on genetically altered twins may also shorten life spans

The findings will likely intensify criticism that the researcher carried out an experiment on humans long before the science was ready.
Science
June 20, 2019
In this Sept. 6, 2018, photo, the head of an Ice Age wolf is seen after it was found during an expedition of the Mammoth Fauna Study Department at the

Science briefs: New technology to measure coral reefs

Local
June 20, 2019
Construction workers readied the new YMCA on Nicollet Mall for it's opening later this week. ] ANTHONY SOUFFLE • anthony.souffle@startribune.co

Twin Cities YMCA partners with Google to host free workshops for families on internet safety

The free one-hour classes on online safety are the first of the kind for the YMCA in the Twin Cities.
South Metro
June 19, 2019
FILE - Minnesota Supreme Court Paul C. Thissen. Thissen wrote for the majority when the Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed the cyber bullyi

Minn. Supreme Court: Stalking, harassment laws overly broad in cyberbully case

A Scott County student was convicted of cyberbullying, but the high court ruled that the laws on mail harrassment and stalking by mail were overly broad.
West Metro
June 19, 2019
FILE - In this April 4, 2013, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook’s pla

Twin Cities app founder suing Facebook over alleged copyright violation

Facebook released its own app called "Lasso"
June 19, 2019
In this Oct. 12, 2018 file photo, a man holds a frame removed from a hive box covered with honey bees in Lansing, Mich. According to the results of an

Survey sees biggest US honeybee winter die-off yet

Winter hit U.S. honeybees hard with the highest loss rate yet, an annual survey of beekeepers showed.
Business
June 18, 2019
FILE - In this Jan.31, 2019 file photo, a trunk full of fake bank notes is displayed as activists from anti-globalization organisation Attac stage a p

U.S. slow-walks digital tax talks, hoping to wear down allies

Local
June 16, 2019
Conservation Corps volunteer Sarah Curran planted and marked trees in southeast Minnesota.

Invasive grasses choke birds' habitat as climate changes

Fluctuating levels on Mississippi, ushered in by warming climate, doom floodplain forests.
Minneapolis
June 14, 2019
This photo shows a vial of the drug ketamine.

FDA: HCMC kept ketamine study going after pledging to stop

Science
June 13, 2019
Dr. Brian Chesebro, right, in Portland, Ore., has calculated that by simply using the anesthesia gas sevoflurane in most surgeries, instead of the sim

Can anesthesia go green?

One commonly used gas lasts 14 years in the atmosphere
Local
June 9, 2019
Nick Egger, the public works director for Hastings, checked indicators on a tank at a facility that removes nitrates from his city's drinking water.

Landmark farm rule aims to protect Minnesota's drinking water

Hoping to cut nitrate levels in drinking supply, Minnesota regulating fertilizer use
Science
June 8, 2019
A new study based on search engine activity found that Minnesota is one-of-a-kind in the self-care term it Googles most: setting boundaries.

Minnesotans' top self-care search on Google? Setting boundaries

More than sleep or fitness, we turned to Google for help setting boundaries.
Nation
June 6, 2019
Craig Newmark attend the 12th annual Stand Up For Heroes benefit red carpet at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, in N

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark donates $6 million to Consumer Reports

Billionaire makes another contribution to bolster journalism industry.
Science
June 6, 2019

The best way to boil water, according to a physicist

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