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Blind chemist creates STEM curriculum for sightless children

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When she was 6 or 7, Mona Minkara’s eyesight began to fade.

 

Iowa student's invention helps pigs avoid getting squished

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The story of how an Iowa college student came to invent life-saving wearable technology for pigs sounds a bit like an infomercial.

 

What’s smaller than a python but just as bad for South Florida? Invasive fish

OCHOPEE, Fla. (TNS) — Out in the Big Cypress swamp, across the street from the country’s smallest post office in a wilderness the size of Rhode Island, a canal is teeming with something unexpected: aquarium fish usually found in a…

 

‘Human-on-a-chip’ could end animal testing

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — She was just another beagle that Lawrence Vernetti had scheduled to take part in another drug experiment.

 

A symbol of India’s muscular Hindu nationalism

AYODHYA, India (TNS) — At an open-air workshop in this northern Indian town, craftsmen have painstakingly chiseled columns and beams out of giant slabs of stone, engraved each with a number and stacked them three stories high.

 

Which cities will be most affected by Trumpcare?

To gauge the impact of the Republican-proposed health plan on people who buy their own insurance, WalletHub’s analysts compared 457 U.S. cities based on the differences in premium subsidies that the average household would receive under Obamacare and Trumpcare.

 

Trump son-in-law's ties to Israel raise questions of bias

JERUSALEM — Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, has deep business and personal ties to Israel that could raise questions about his ability to serve as an honest broker as he oversees the White House's Mideast peace…

 

20 years later, Heaven’s Gate lives on — via internet, scholarly debates

SAN DIEGO (TNS) — The jokes started right away, even though 39 people had died. Heaven’s Gate felt ripe for ridicule.

 

Cities throw shade at rising heat

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Rudy Lane is a two-lane road that curves through the leafy suburb of Windy Hills east of Louisville, Ky. Broadway is a main drag downtown where the federal and state courthouses bump up against the 1920s-era Brown…

 

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