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Scientists: 'Super' wheat to boost food security

Scientists: 'Super' wheat to boost food security

Scientists say they're close to producing new "super varieties" of wheat that will resist a virulent fungus while boosting yields up to 15 percent, potentially easing a deadly threat to the world's food supply.
by Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

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Electrocognition and mind reading

Electrocognition and mind reading

An old technology called electrocorticography, or ECoG, uses electrodes placed on the surface of the brain to detect electrical signals coming from the brain itself. Now, researchers are using ECoG to read minds.

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Around MN: Cravaack's car; no budget progress

Around MN: Cravaack's car; no budget progress

Every day, MPR's Minnesota Today team highlights important stories throughout the state. Find more statewide news any time at www.minnesotatoday.org
by Michael Olson

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Jobs emerges from leave, unveils new products

Jobs emerges from leave, unveils new products

Apple CEO Steve Jobs briefly emerged from a medical leave Monday to unveil a free service that lets customers share calendar entries, songs and other files among their devices more easily.

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Were ancient human migrations two-way streets?

Were ancient human migrations two-way streets?

The worldwide spread of ancient humans has been depicted as flowing out of Africa, but new evidence suggests it may have been a two-way street.

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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey at the Commonwealth Club

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey at the Commonwealth Club

Jack Dorsey created Twitter and launched the company in 2006 with two partners. He is the executive chairman of the company and leads product development. The Commonwealth Club of California named Dorsey its 21st Century Visionary Award winner and invited him to discuss how Twitter came about and talk about his new venture, Square, which lets users accept credit card payments for their products via mobile phones.

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Radiolab: Desperately seeking symmetry

This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence -- from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror.

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UND at forefront of unmanned flight as industry set to grow

UND at forefront of unmanned flight as industry set to grow

The University of North Dakota hopes to train unmanned aircraft crews from Customs and Border Protection, the Coast Guard and the Air Force.
by Dan Gunderson

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Next-to-last space shuttle flight lands on Earth

Next-to-last space shuttle flight lands on Earth

Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth early Wednesday, closing out the next-to-last mission in NASA's 30-year program with a safe middle-of-the-night landing.

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The rise of Internet vigilantes

The recent hacking of the PBS website and other high profile, politically motivated data breaches are raising more questions about the security of our computer networks.

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