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With high-tech guns, users could disable remotely

A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved -- and disable it remotely.

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Science Night: Mission to Mars

Science Night: Mission to Mars

Space geeks: Is Mars your muse? Join MPR and the Public Insight Network as we explore how Mars has changed us.

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Futurist Jamais Cascio envisions a sustainable, resilient world

Futurist Jamais Cascio envisions a sustainable, resilient world

Internationally renowned futurist Jamais Cascio explores the potential course of planet Earth over the next 50 years, painting a picture of what a sustainable, resilient world could look like. He says the choices we make today will shape the decades to come.

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Minn. students square off in robotics tourney

Nearly 800 students will battle their robots and try to take home the top prize. The tournament features 30 teams going head-to-head in a challenge to test their robots' abilities and strengths.

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What is it about bees and hexagons?

Look at ahoneycomb and ask yourself why is every cell in this honeycomb a hexagon? Bees, after all, could build honeycombs from rectangles or squares or triangles.

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Drone aircraft help Grand Forks police fight crime

Drone aircraft help Grand Forks police fight crime

The unmanned aircraft are small enough to fit in the trunk of a squad car, and let officers search areas from a different perspective while saving time and money, but privacy advocates worry they might also make it easy for police to spy on people.
by Dan Gunderson

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NPR's Alix Spiegel speaks on covering psychology and emotion

NPR's Alix Spiegel speaks on covering psychology and emotion

NPR science desk reporter Alix Spiegel, speaking April 29, 2013 as part of the MPR Broadcast Journalist Series. MPR's Steven John hosted the event at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.
by Steven John

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Spacewalking astronauts hope new pump stops leak

Spacewalking astronauts hope new pump stops leak

Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious ammonia leak.

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A trip of a lifetime, so far, coming up soon for astronaut-to-be

A trip of a lifetime, so far, coming up soon for astronaut-to-be

Abby Harrison is a sophomore at South High School. Next week, she'll be leaving for a trip to Kazakhstan in Central Asia to see the launch of a Russian Soyuz space capsule. MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Abby Harrison.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Monkeys or humans, it's the young who go first

Monkeys or humans, it's the young who go first

A new study finds that monkeys, like humans, change their behavior to adapt to social norms and even vary their eating habits to blend in with new surroundings and new groups of monkeys.

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