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Algae fixes may trigger more lake pollution

According to a new University of Minnesota study published online Thursday in the journal Science, reducing phosphorus can result in less of the microbial processes that eliminate another unwanted nutrient: nitrogen.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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NASA spacecraft zips by Earth en route to Jupiter

Launched in 2011, the Juno spacecraft zipped past Mars, Earth's closest planetary neighbor. It looped back and will make a quick pass by Earth to gather momentum to continue toward Jupiter, located 484 million miles from the sun.

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Richard Dawkins on Elvis Presley and other gods

Richard Dawkins on Elvis Presley and other gods

The noted scientist and atheist described his journey from believer to atheist.

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St. Paul native shares Nobel medicine prize

Americans Randy Schekman, who was born in St. Paul, James Rothman and and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells.

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Civic hackers aim to crack open public data

Civic hackers aim to crack open public data

Taking publicly available data and putting it in forms that are more easily digestible for the public is the point of so-called "civic hacking," which seeks to provide practical solutions to civic problems by applying data and design.
by Jon Collins

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Lack of sleep can be dangerous for teens

Lack of sleep can be dangerous for teens

A researcher and former school administrator join The Daily Circuit to talk about the latest research on sleep and the teenage brain.

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Your digital trail: Data fuels political and legal agendas

If you are one of those people who say, "I've done nothing wrong; I've got nothing to hide," do you have any reason to worry that someone might try to use your digital records against you? "The answer, one reasearcher says, is that there has never before been as much data so easily available about us.

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Studying the science behind child prodigies

It's not clear whether a prodigy's brain is any different from the brain of other children, in part because there have been no studies comparing the brains of prodigies with those of average people.

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Why eye contact can fail to win people over

Pop psychology holds that to connect with someone, you should look deep into their eyes. The more you look, the more persuasive you'll be. But that may work only when your audience already agrees with you.

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Scientists discover ancient supervolcanoes on Mars

Volcanoes previously have been spotted on Mars, bu what's different about this supervolcano network is that it was found in the Martian northern highlands, a place not known to be active in the past.

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