Increasing demand and uncertain budgets have rural Minnesota transit systems looking to combine technology and personal service to become more efficient.
NASA has just retired its space shuttle program. What does it mean for the future of American space travel and innovation? Journalist Michael Belfiore says we're headed for privately funded rockets.
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Bestselling author Garth Sundem's latest book, "Brain Trust," asks a big question: What would your life be like if you could ask 93 top scientists for research-based advice to best perform your daily activities?
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Reporter Dan Kraker talks with Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer about the stories that people are talking about in Duluth.
Kraker tells us about a new sub-atomic research facility, the growing need for dredging in Lake Superior and the running of the smelt.
Thanks in part to a professor at the University of Minnesota, tissue samples gathered decades ago are being used today for important medical research. A new DNA analysis process called polymerase chain reaction is revealing new information about infectious diseases.
For example, scientists have learned new things about Hepatitis C by analyzing blood serum that was collected from airmen during the Korean War.
It's likely that blood serum would have been destroyed if it wasn't for the efforts of Dr. Edward Kaplan. He's a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of Minnesota.
He told MPR's Cathy Wurzer that when he found out about the serum samples, being stored in Cleveland, he came up with an innovative and inexpensive way to get them delivered to the University of Minnesota.
With its new cloud storage, Google is hoping to build the world's largest digital filing cabinet in the latest attempt to deepen people's dependence on its services.
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Our May installment of the Bright Ideas series features Maggie Koerth-Baker, the science editor at Boing Boing. She talks with host Stephen Smith about her vision of America's energy future, including how economic and social incentives lead to our current high fossil fuel consumption and how similar incentives can help us change.
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