Star Tribune

Roper: Minneapolis Public Schools’ doom loop is a threat to the city’s future

In the past decade alone, the share of city kids attending Minneapolis Public Schools has fallen from 62% to 53%. And city residents are also just having fewer children, with Minneapolis births ...
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Scientists can now map spots on distant stars using orbiting exoplanets

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." according to NASA"s Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space ...
Stars and Stripes

Using technology, Army moves combat engineers from the breach to save lives

FORT HOOD, Texas — Clearing the path to the front lines of combat only has about a 50% survivability rate for Army combat engineers. Challenged to improve that, Fort Hood’s 36th Engineer Brigade ...
Astronomy

Astronomers confirm potentially habitable exoplanet in the solar neighborhood

A team of scientists has confirmed that the nearby star GJ 887 hosts at least four planets, one of which could be a habitable world — the second closest to our own solar system. RELATED: Animal life ...