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Gov. Walz authorizes state disaster assistance for northern Minnesota wildfires

DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz authorized disaster assistance Wednesday for Lake and Cook counties after wildfires this summer. In July, lightning strikes in northern Minnesota sparked more than 20 wildfires. The fires burned more than 70,000 acres, prompting evacuations and a complete closure of the...

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Project in Lake Superior seeks to find and better understand mysterious cosmic particles

The bottom of Lake Superior will be the latest laboratory for researchers hoping to learn more about neutrinos — also known as ghost particles. Neutrinos are tiny cosmic particles that have no electric charge, and they’re famously hard to find because of their extremely small mass. Despite that, they’re among the most abundant particles in the universe. They are called ghost particles because trillions of them move through people every second without interacting with them, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

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