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Brittney Griner returned to the United States early Friday, nearly 10 months after the basketball star’s detention in Russia made her the most high-profile American jailed abroad and set off a political firestorm.

Hate mealy apples and soggy French fries? Science can help. Restaurants, grocers, farmers and food companies are increasingly turning to chemistry and physics to tackle the problem of food waste.

Wire reports Oil spill in rural Kansas creek shuts down Keystone pipeline An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas shut down a major pipeline that carries oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast, briefly causing oil prices to rise on Thursday. Canada-based TC Energy said it shut down its Keystone system Wednesday night following a drop in pipeline pressure.

The ACLU of Missouri is suing a suburban Kansas City school district over its policy of automatically removing any challenged library material before it is reviewed. The ACLU argues in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that the Independence School District’s current policy violates students’ First Amendment rights because it “restricts their access to ideas and information for an improper purpose and without any prior notice.” Under the current policy, a library material is automatically removed after it is challenged.

Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland. Today, it’s a barren Arctic desert, but back then it was a lush landscape of trees and vegetation with an array of animals, even the now extinct mastodon.

Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic prisoner exchange, as the U.S. released notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout but failed to win freedom for another American, Paul Whelan, who has been jailed for nearly four years.

An inmate has been sentenced to an additional four years in prison for making threats and attempting to batter an employee at the Lansing Correctional Facility, according to a prosecution official. Richard K.