Science

March 2, 2017 6:14 PM

The typo that brought down (a lot of) the internet

Amazon says an incorrectly typed command during a routine debugging of its billing system caused the five-hour outage of some Amazon Web Services servers on Tuesday.

by Associated Press

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March 2, 2017 10:52 AM

Embryo experiments reveal earliest human development, but stir ethical debate

Researchers who study developing human embryos have long limited their experimentation to lab embryos that are no more than 14 days into development. Some scientists are now pushing that boundary.

by Rob Stein

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March 2, 2017 8:36 AM

Someday disposable drones may deliver a payload, then vanish

DARPA, the Pentagon's R&D agency, is working with partners to develop low-cost gliders that travel about 100 miles and disappear within hours. The vehicles could have humanitarian and military uses.

by Lucia Maffei

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March 2, 2017 6:08 AM

Women of NASA to be immortalized -- in Lego form

Lego figurines of five storied female NASA pioneers will soon grace toy-store shelves. The project, proposed by a science writer, is meant to shed light on women's contributions to the space program.

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March 2, 2017 6:00 AM

Tiny fossils could be oldest evidence of life on Earth

Scientists say they've found the remains of tube- and string-like organisms in Canadian rocks that are at least 3.7 billion years old. But findings like these are always controversial.

by Rae Ellen Bichell

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March 2, 2017 12:00 AM

Global food in a 'farm-to-table' world

MPR's Chris Farrell leads a conversation on food security and sustainability with representatives from Cargill, Ecolab and the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment.

by MPR News Staff

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February 28, 2017 10:57 AM

Solved: The mystery of Devil's Kettle Falls

Anyone who's seen the disappearing waterfall along Minnesota's North Shore has wondered where the water goes. Hydrologists now think they know. While it's not a Scooby-Doo moment, the answer to the mystery is still intriguing.

by Dan Kraker

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February 28, 2017 6:17 AM

SpaceX announces plans to send two customers to the moon

It would be the first time humans have traveled beyond low Earth orbit since the days of Apollo. The mission would be manned and financed by two private, anonymous customers.

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February 28, 2017 12:00 AM

Science wunderkind urges making science beneficial to humanity

Taylor Wilson astounded the science world when he built a bomb at age 10, and at age 14 became the youngest person in history to produce fusion. The young nuclear scientist is still only 22, and he believes science can potentially solve some of the most important problems of our time.

by MPR News Staff