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    May 22, 2019
    A deer tick (left) and an American dog tick, more commonly known as a woodtick, are shown side by side for comparison in April 2010 at Turtle River State Park near Arvilla, N.D. With tick season at hand, the North Dakota Department of Health is recommending people take precautions. Brad Dokken / Forum News Service
    Tick population is booming. Is climate change to blame? Will tick-borne diseases increase?
    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the number of tick-borne diseases is increasing at a record pace while the geographic...
    news/science-and-natureMay 22, 2019 - 12:33pm
    May 12, 2019
    Astronaut Anna Fisher near the aft flight deck of Discovery in 1984 as fellow crew members worked to retrieve two stranded communications satellites. (Courtesy of NASA)
    She was pregnant when NASA offered to send her to space, Anna Fisher didn't hesitate
    The moment Anna Lee Fisher had been waiting for came on a hot summer afternoon in 1983. Five years had passed since Fisher and five other women...
    lifestyle/familyMay 12, 2019 - 9:32am
    April 15, 2019
    Scientists have captured the first direct image of a supermassive black hole. The cosmic portrait belongs to the black hole at the center of Messier 87, the largest galaxy we know of, about 54 million light-years away. MUST CREDIT: Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al.
    Algorithms gave us black hole picture, she's the scientist who helped create them
    Katherine Bouman had a secret: An algorithm she'd developed had stitched together a picture of a black hole. She told nobody except her colleagues....
    news/science-and-natureApril 15, 2019 - 3:55pm
    April 11, 2019
    Robert DePalma, a paleontologist at the Palm Beach Museum of Natural History and a graduate student at the University of Kansas, works at a fossil site in North Dakota. Special to The Forum
    Commentary: Digging into our planet's history
    These are the days of miracles and wonders, as Paul Simon once sang. News of one such marvel took me on a bright spring morning to the paleontology...
    opinion/columnsApril 11, 2019 - 1:36pm
    March 20, 2019
    A view across Bennu's southern hemisphere and into space, showing the number and distribution of boulders across the asteroid's surface.
    The smallest and farthest worlds ever explored by NASA are really, really weird
    HOUSTON -- In recent months, NASA has explored the smallest object ever orbited and the most distant body ever encountered -- and found that...
    news/science-and-natureMarch 20, 2019 - 1:20pm
    March 4, 2019
    Mike Bridavsky and his famous, and now scientifically significant, cat, Lil Bub. Photo: lilbub.com/Mike Bridavsky.
    Scientists have finally discovered what makes celebrity cat Lil Bub so 'magical'
    Dario Lupianez is the author of dense scientific papers with titles including "Breaking TADs: How alterations of chromatin domains result in...
    entertainment/newsMarch 4, 2019 - 3:39pm
    February 25, 2019
    Drug syringe and cooked heroin on spoon
    Use of meth, heroin, other drugs may be linked to growing rates of syphilis
    Public health officials grappling with record-high syphilis rates around the nation have pinpointed what appears to be a major risk factor: drug...
    lifestyle/healthFebruary 25, 2019 - 10:56am
    February 20, 2019
    Neptune as seen by Voyager 2 during its flyby in 1989.
    Tiny new moon discovered around Neptune
    A diminutive nugget of a moon has been discovered lurking in the inner orbit of Neptune. The moon, dubbed Hippocamp for the half-horse, half-fish...
    news/science-and-natureFebruary 20, 2019 - 2:39pm
    February 11, 2019
    The three components of love are lust, attraction and attachment. File photo
    The science behind the sweaty palms and racing heart
    DULUTH -- Lynn Schwarzkopf remembers the excitement, “the lightness in your heart” she said, recalling meeting her husband, Erik. The Duluth...
    lifestyle/familyFebruary 11, 2019 - 9:40pm
    January 10, 2019
    Dr. Leann Nelson, the Teacher Education Department chair, gets students started on a task in the SmartLab Monday at the University of Jamestown. John M. Steiner / The Sun
    SmartLab class for future teachers starts at UJ
    The first class ever - Instructional Media and Technology - began Monday in the University of Jamestown's newly installed SmartLab. It's a required...
    news/educationJanuary 10, 2019 - 7:02am
    January 4, 2019
    Traffic moves through downtown Anchorage, Alaska. Bloomberg photo by David Ryder
    After destructive November quake, Anchorage still faces onslaught of aftershocks
    On Friday, November 30, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Anchorage, Alaska. The initial jarring was destructive - and now, more than a month...
    news/science-and-natureJanuary 4, 2019 - 11:57am
    December 7, 2018
    Profile by Sanford aggressively expanding across US
    FARGO — Profile by Sanford, a weight-loss subsidiary created by Sanford Health, is in the midst of an aggressive push to open franchises around...
    business/healthcareDecember 7, 2018 - 2:19pm
    A juvenile Hawaiian monk seal was found with a spotted eel in its nose at French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands this past summer. NOAA Fisheries/Brittany Dolan.
    'Make better choices': Endangered Hawaiian monk seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses and scientists want them to stop
    A relaxed-looking juvenile Hawaiian monk seal lounges near a sandy white beach on some green foliage. Its eyes are half-closed and it has a serene...
    news/science-and-natureDecember 7, 2018 - 11:51am
    December 6, 2018
    Buckfast honey bees gather on a beehive in Merango, Ill., on Sept. 10, 2018. Bloomberg photo by Daniel Acker.
    World's first honey bee vaccine seeks to save dying pollinators
    A growing number of honey bees die each year due to pesticides, vanishing habitats, poor nutrition and climate change, with potentially disastrous...
    news/science-and-natureDecember 6, 2018 - 9:46am
    November 26, 2018
    Hess Corp. donated 24 trucks and STEM kits to Liberty Elementary School in Bismarck. On Monday, Nov. 26, fourth-graders Ryan Bullinger and Skylee Bailey constructed an ATV track, complete with sand affixed to cardboard, a handmade bridge and small plastic trees. The students were tasked with creating a 2-by-10-foot track, with two obstacles, a bridge and a ramp. Blair Emerson / Bismarck Tribune
    Hess to give toy trucks, STEM kits to ND schools
    BISMARCK — Hess Corp. plans to donate more than 8,000 toy trucks to North Dakota elementary schools to help incorporate science, technology,...
    news/educationNovember 26, 2018 - 5:42pm
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