Jeremy Manier

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg hugs his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, after making an announcement to run for president in the 2020 election at Studebaker Building 84 in downtown South Bend on April 14, 2019.

South Bend, a postindustrial Everycity, is riding the Pete Buttigieg presidential wave

May 31, 2019 at 9:23 p.m.

As a kid in my hometown of South Bend, Ind., I hoped our modest city would one day achieve true national prominence — but I soon understood that it probably...

Cassini Spacecraft Operations Team Manager Julie Webster reacts in mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sept. 15, 2017, after confirmation of Cassini's demise. After 20 years in space, NASA's famed Cassini spacecraft made its final death plunge into Saturn, ending a storied mission that scientists say taught us nearly everything we know about Saturn today and transformed the way we think about life elsewhere in the solar system.

Cassini at Saturn: More like this, please

May 31, 2019 at 9:13 p.m.

It's either a pity or a blessing that automated space probes are not eligible to win the Pulitzer Prize for news photography. If they were, NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn...

Our pursuit of happiness

August 22, 2021 at 6:02 a.m.

Americans have seen their retirement savings shrivel, home equity evaporate and job security vanish. The only numbers zooming upward seem to be gas and food prices. It may look like...

WHEN THEORIES COLLIDE

August 22, 2021 at 1:57 a.m.

Sounds like the premise of a bad sci-fi movie: Big-time physics experiment accidentally destroys the Earth. Scientists really don't think that will happen when the Large Hadron Collider fires up...

Fermilab gears up for new project

August 22, 2021 at 6:11 a.m.

With less than a week to go before a state-of-the-art European particle collider makes the one in Batavia a relic, scientists at Fermilab are testing ways of using the new...

Field’s genetic analysis rewrites birds’ family tree

August 22, 2021 at 8:28 a.m.

When a falcon swoops from the sky to seize its fleeing prey, no one would mistake the sleek predator for a gaudy parrot. Yet the secret kinship of falcons and...

Golfers feel the pain of Woods’ win

August 22, 2021 at 9:04 a.m.

Like Tiger Woods, who won the U.S. Open on Monday while battling pain from knee surgery, Pam Fritzsche is not about to let some discomfort keep her from the game...

How doctors can catch cancers in the mouth

August 22, 2021 at 4:37 a.m.

Dental exams are considered the first line of defense for many forms of oral cancer, but the usefulness of such screening is unclear for HPV-related throat cancer. Such tumors usually...

Scientists clamor to study cougar’s trail

August 22, 2021 at 2:07 a.m.

DNA test results released Wednesday show that the cougar police shot in Chicago last month is the same one that frightened a southern Wisconsin man in January, and researchers hope...

State’s early education elite, some say

August 22, 2021 at 6:17 a.m.

School test scores in Illinois may not lead the nation, but some experts consider the state a model of how to make zero-to-3 programs an integral part of preschool education....

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