Nation
Government extends endangered status to captive chimps
Move extends endangered status to all the primates.
Business
Billionaire tech giants in race to develop cheaper spaceflight
Three tech titans are racing to develop spacecraft aimed at making exploring space as routine as a typical airline flight.
Politics
Minnesota researchers race to decode secrets of deadly bird flu
The worst avian flu outbreak in the nation's history has spawned a series of investigations by Minnesota disease researchers to figure out why this new and exceptionally deadly virus is behaving in such bizarre ways.
Politics
Federal plan calls for billion plants to help save monarch butterflies
An ambitious federal plan calls for a billion milkweed plants along a Duluth-to-Texas corridor traveled by butterflies.
Science
June 6, 2015: Fractured skull found in Spain turns into 430,000-year-old whodunit
Archaeologists say they have discovered the earliest known evidence of a human ancestor who was murdered.
Science
Israel creates a water revolution
Israel solved supply problem by artificially producing more than half its water.
Science
Politics
Invasive carp caught farther upstream on St. Croix River
Five bighead carp were captured in the St. Croix River in the past week, just south of Stillwater and the furthest upstream the invasive fish have been detected in the St. Croix.
Minneapolis
U students play the music of the warming spheres
U student Dan Crawford has enlisted a string quartet to perform music made from scientific data on climate change.
Local
Minnesota pastor is gaining new insights from bionic eye
Two months later, it turns out James Kelm was an ideal pioneer.
Science
Robots match human dexterity and speed
The so-called machine-learning approach links powerful software techniques that make it possible for the robot to learn new tasks rapidly with a relatively small amount of training.
Science
Big winner from exercise: Brain
Physical fitness directly affects our mind and plays a crucial role in the way the brain develops and functions.
Science
Study suggest depression a precursor to Parkinson's
More severe depression found to increase the risk.
Most Read
- Ancient Canaanites have living legacy in many modern-day Lebanese
- Dallas lawyer has lived most of his life in an iron lung
- Science briefs: Prehistoric croc is named after Motorhead frontman
- Science briefs: Genes point to how giraffes got their strange bodies
- Fear of rare meningitis strain helps drive vaccine sales
Science and Technology
News coverage and feature stories on the latest in the world of science and tech.
