| Overnight snow will carry into the morning. Even if the trek to work is bad, at least the bone-chilling cold is gone. Statewide highs range from 9 to 12 in the northwest to 20s in the southeast. In the Twin Cities, nighttime lows around 10 with a chance of more snow after midnight. More on Updraft. | Forecast
How much does population growth contribute to climate change? More people, more problems. But talking about population, or overpopulation, is tricky. So, let reporter Elizabeth Dunbar do the heavy lifting and explain the answer to this reader question.
You can help the families of the National Guard members killed last week. A fund has been set up for donations to the families of Charles Nord, James Rogers Jr. and Kort Plantenberg, who died in a helicopter crash.
There’s a lot to see in the sky the next couple days. The decade’s last full moon is Thursday and the Geminid meteor shower peaks Friday night and Saturday morning. Turn your gaze skyward with this guide.
Turns out the timing you pop pills may matter. A new study found that blood pressure meds were more effective when taken at night. Dr. Jon Hallberg says timing of drugs matters because are bodies go through different processes at different times: “For example, our stomach can produce a lot of acid at 2 or 3 in the morning. Many people who suffer from heartburn or reflux will know that they'll wake up in the middle of the night with this pain. … Also, our liver makes LDL cholesterol molecules more at night, so that's why people might take their statin medication at night.”
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