The governor of Illinois is authorizing steps toward the installation of technologies in a Chicago-area waterway…
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Study: Loan-replacement grants boost low-income students’ graduation rates
Freshmen from low-income families who received Illinois Promise loan-replacement grants at the University of Illinois were…
Ag census reveals first reports of kiwiberry production in the Northeast
For the first time since the USDA began keeping statistics in 1840, farmers from several Northeast…
Are buyers willing to forgo quality in locally grown produce?
West Coast farms produce more than 90 percent of the broccoli consumed in the United States.…
Researchers find ice feature on Saturn’s giant moon
Rain, seas and a surface of eroding organic material can be found both on Earth and…
New 3-D printed microscope promising for medical diagnostics in developing countries
Researchers have used 3-D printing to make an inexpensive and portable high-resolution microscope that is small…
Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup
For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how the Earth's moon formed. But researchers…
GRACE mission data contributes to our understanding of climate change
The University of Texas at Austin team that led a twin satellite system launched in 2002…
What a never-before-seen radioactive decay could tell us about neutrinos
Bill Fairbank is looking for... nothing.
What a dying star’s ashes tell us about the birth of our solar system
A grain of dust forged in the death throes of a long-gone star was discovered by…