DULUTH — About 1.1 billion years ago here, fissures opened in the surface of the earth, depositing lakes of molten rock near what would eventually be the Twin Ports and Lake Superior. This is ...

The Advanced General Aviation Technology Experiments (AGATE) Consortium was founded in 1994 by NASA, the U.S. Federal Aviation Admin. (FAA) and about 70 other members from industry, academia and other ...

Agate Housing and Services will close a Minneapolis shelter, a low-income housing facility and a food shelf, citing financial pressure on nonprofits that serve the homeless. The nonprofit group also ...

Mineral deposits can create markings that look like forests or mountains, and experts say each stone is distinctive. By Jill Newman When Tarun Adlakha displays a dendritic agate, with its finely ...

Agate Housing and Services, a nonprofit shelter operator, will shutter and sell a downtown homeless shelter months after the Minneapolis City Council allocated $1.5 million to make needed renovations, ...

In September, the Minneapolis City Council voted to allocate $1.5 million so the shelter could renovate and stay open. This week, however, the Minnesota Star Tribune reports Agate's board of directors ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

Agate Housing and Services aims to start construction in the new year on a $25 million emergency shelter and affordable housing project in south Minneapolis, part of an effort to boost help for a ...

Buyers select Nanhong agate stones in Xichang Nanhong agate market, Sichuan Province, in 2013. Photo: CFP The small hill in Meigu county, Southwest China's Sichuan Province is pitted with dozens of ...