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February 11, 2004 1:50 PM

North Dakota expects big things from nanotechnology

The Red River Valley is best known for growing wheat and sugar beets. But North Dakota officials hope to produce a bumper crop of high tech jobs in the next decade. Many of those jobs will be built around a nanotechnology research initiative at North Dakota State University.

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February 10, 2004 3:00 PM

Biotech has potential in rural Minnesota

There are only a few places in the country considered hotbeds for emerging biotechnology industries. Minnesota isn't one of them. Gov. Pawlenty hopes to change that with an initiative to strengthen a biotech corridor in the Twin Cities and Rochester. But some say biotech businesses could also spur economic development in rural Minnesota. Leaders in Bemidji are exploring ways to develop a mini biotech cluster of their own.

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February 10, 2004 10:20 AM

U of M pursues private funds for embryonic stem cell research

The University of Minnesota will seek private funds to expand current stem cell research to a controversial use of embryonic cells. Researchers are hoping to avoid clashes with abortion opponents and investigate cures of diseases.

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February 3, 2004 4:45 PM

Pawlenty proposal leaves bioscience proponents disappointed

Governor Pawlenty has outlined a series of proposals to help Minnesota's emerging biotech industry. Pawlenty has made biotech a top priority of his administration. But the governor's recommendations don't go as far as the proposals from the biosciences council he created last year. Industry experts say even if Pawlenty's package passes in its entirety, Minnesota will have to do more down the road to be a major player in the biotech industry.

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January 12, 2004 11:20 AM

How the brain's secrets were revealed

Four hundred years ago, the brain first displaced the heart as the seat of human identity. A journalist finds fresh insight into the body's most mysterious organ by looking at the work of a 17th century scientist.

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January 6, 2004 12:20 PM

Exploring Mars

"Spirit," the Mars rover that landed Saturday night, is sitting inside the huge Gusev crater, which scientists believe may have contained a lake about four billion years ago. One of the rover's missions will be to scratch rocks and move soil around to see if any minerals exist on Mars that are water-related.

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December 30, 2003 1:20 PM

Columbia Remembered...Atlantis, Go For Launch

One year after the space shuttle Columbia accident, Columbia Remembered...Atlantis, Go For Launch looks back on the shuttle tragedy and looks ahead to the planned flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis. Hear from the Columbia astronauts and re-live the tragic loss of the shuttle. Get the inside story of the recovery of the shuttle's flight data recorder from the man who found it.

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November 25, 2003 11:20 AM

Explorer treks north to study climate change

Will Steger is packing up his sled again. This December, the Minnesotan begins a journey back to the Arctic -- this time to bring attention to what global warming is doing to the top of the earth. Like his last journey to the region, this one will be documented on the Internet.

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November 10, 2003 1:20 PM

Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham at the National Press Club

Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham addresses the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He announces a prioritized list of major, new scientific facilities needed over the next 20 years to support research in areas that have been the traditional responsibility of the department.

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October 16, 2003 3:29 PM

Judge says Internet phone regulation could slow Net's expansion

Allowing states to regulate companies that provide voice calls over the Internet as traditional telephone companies would conflict with federal law and could slow Internet growth, a Minnesota judge wrote Thursday.

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