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A worker stocks shelves in a Brooklyn grocery store on April 16, 2020. A new study of almost 100 older people and their brains and work histories find

Physically draining activity at work may take toll on brains

The brains looked different if the workers felt that their jobs were physically hard than if they did not.
Science
August 15
Dr. Onyeka Otugo, an emergency physician in Boston, said she has experienced years of microaggressions with people asking “if you’re coming in to

For doctors of color, microaggressions are all too familiar

Many find it challenging to be advocates for themselves and their patients, particularly within the rigid hierarchies of the medical system.
National
August 14
President Donald Trump on Friday gave the Chinese company ByteDance 90 days to divest itself of any assets used to support the popular TikTok app in t

Trump orders Chinese owner of TikTok to sell US assets

President Donald Trump on Friday gave the Chinese company ByteDance 90 days to divest itself of any assets used to support the popular TikTok app in the United States.
Science
August 13
In this file image, Betty Daniel of Chicago gets her routine yearly mammogram from Lead Mammography Tech Stella Palmer at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicag

Diagnoses of 6 common cancers fall 46% during pandemic

The trend is one that worries cancer doctors.
TV & Media
August 13
Screenshot from Fortnite video game.

Apple, Google drop Fortnite from app stores over payments

Apple and Google dropped the popular game Fortnite from their app stores after the game's developer introduced a direct payment plan that bypasses their platforms.
Science
August 13
For the first time, corals raised in a lab and transplanted to the natural reefs in the Florida Keys are primed to join the coral spawn.

A coral milestone: Lab-grown and replanted corals to spawn in Florida Keys

It's a promising boost for efforts to restore the ravaged reef systems.
National
August 13
A sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

Facebook beefs up anti-misinformation efforts ahead of US election

Beginning Thursday, U.S. Facebook users who post about voting may start seeing an addendum to their messages -- labels directing readers to authoritative information about the upcoming presidential election.
Local
August 12
An adult European chafer (left) next to a Japanese beetle adult.

Beetle that destroys lawns found in Minnesota for first time

The European chafer beetle inflicts more damage to turf than Japanese beetles, the state Ag Department said.
World
August 11
This photo provided by the French Army shows oil leaking from the MV Wakashio, a bulk carrier ship that ran aground off the southeast coast of Mauriti

Urgent pumping removes oil from ship grounded near Mauritius

In a race against tides and time, workers pumped tons of fuel on Tuesday from a Japanese bulk carrier ship grounded in the shallow waters of Mauritius to try to prevent a renewed oil spill from further fouling the island's eastern lagoons and shore.
Minneapolis
August 11
A Minnesota DNR crew transplanted 3,506 mussels native to Minnesota -- including Higgins’ eye, bucket and snuffbox-- to grow in the waters of the St

Mussel project could lure wildlife back to stretch of Mississippi

For the first time in nearly a century, native river life could return to a barren stretch of the Mississippi above St. Anthony Falls.
National
August 7
President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered an unspecified ban on “transactions” with the Chinese owners of the consumer apps TikTok and WeChat.

Trump bans dealings with Chinese owners of TikTok, WeChat

President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered a sweeping but unspecified ban on dealings with the Chinese owners of consumer apps TikTok and WeChat, although it remains unclear if he has the legal authority to actually ban the apps from the U.S.
World
August 6
Technicians work on the poloidial field coil assembly line at the ITER (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in Saint-Paul-Lez-Duranc

France's global nuclear fusion device a puzzle of huge parts

A hugely ambitious project to replicate the energy of the sun is entering a critical phase.
Science
August 6
Stonehenge, roughly 5,000 years old, on the Salisbury Plain near Amesbury, England, on Aug. 6, 2014. Archaeologists in 2019 pinpointed the provenance

Source of Stonehenge's massive rock is revealed

The breakthrough came last summer when the long-lost core from Stone 58 was returned to the charity that manages Stonehenge.
Science
August 6
Artistic rendering of a juvenile dromaeosaur 70 million years ago on the Prince Creek Formation in northern Alaska.

Scientists discover baby dinosaur jawbone

DALLAS – After years of searching the Arctic, scientists have discovered the fragment of a baby dinosaur’s tiny jawbone, providing what they believe is a…
Science
August 6
The National Park Service is trying to find the least known of the early settlers in the Great Smoky Mountains, the enslaved people brought there in t

Radar to help find graves in Great Smoky Mountains of enslaved people

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – One of the oldest mysteries in the Great Smoky Mountains is where some of its earliest settlers are buried. Now the National…
Science
August 6
Dr. Giorgio Franyuti at a makeshift hospital in Mexico City, June 30, 2020. Franyuti is usually in the remote jungles of Mexico diagnosing tuberculosi

Resurgent diseases prowl in the shadow of coronavirus

Years of progress against infectious disease such as TB at risk of being undone.
Science
August 6
Skeleton athlete Pascal Richard tries one of his old skeleton helmets on his son Samuel at their home in Cochrane, Canada, July 8, 2020.

Sledding team trained hard for gold in 2010. Some regret it

Elite competitors for years have talked of mental fog, headaches, depression.
Science
August 6
A runner on El Porto Beach in Manhattan Beach, Calif., March 18, 2020. Eating a diet high in sugar and processed foods could dent our long-term health

Sugary diets may block body's response to exercise

The resistance was the same whether participant was overweight or slimmer.
Science
August 6
CEO and owner Adar Poonawalla, whose office is installed in a grounded plane, at right, said he felt an obligation to take this risk. “We just felt

Indian billionaires bet big on head start for vaccine

Family-run company carries risk on its own, knowing it has rare assembly capabilities.
Nation
August 6
Scientists worry the Asian Giant Hornet will destroy the honeybee population. The specimen shown is from Bellingham, Wash.

'Murder hornet' captured in trap for first time in Washington

Nearly two months after the “murder hornet” invaded Washington state, officials have managed to capture one of the massive insects in a trap for the…
West Metro
August 6
Wildflowers in a prairie of Lone Lake Park in 2018. The Center for Biological Diversity doesn’t want to stop the new trail, but rather wants the cit

Minnetonka sued over mountain bike trail through rare bumblebee haven

Lone Lake Park is home to one of the state's largest known populations of rusty patched bumblebees.