Tut exhibit coming to Science Museum
Treasures and the science surrounding Tut, boy king of ancient Egypt, are coming to St. Paul in an exhibit the Science Museum of Minnesota plans to open next February.
Scientific Agenda
Scientific Agenda reports on important and interesting developments from the world of science in Minnesota and elsewhere. Coverage includes reports from MinnPost journalist Sharon Schmickle, Inside Science News Service, and other sources.
Raptor Center will round up about 20 Galapagos hawks
The story behind the project is a modern-day lesson in the interwoven eco system that fascinated Charles Darwin more than 150 years ago.
Why football teams from dry climates might have advantage
WASHINGTON — College football betting markets show a statistically significant bias against home teams from arid regions who host teams from wetter environments, researchers from Kansas State University found.
Rundown of area events focusing on science
Here’s a fresh line-up of local events relating to science in one way or another.
Minnesota grad student at the center of clash over animal liberation and research
Science publications and scientists are closely following a case against Scott DeMuth, left, that involves the clash of the civil rights of animal-liberation activists and the rights of scientists to conduct legal research.
Stopping the loss of biodiversity
STRASBURG, Pa. — Next month, representatives from more than 190 nations will gather in Japan at the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit to develop a global strategy for staunching habitat and biodiversity loss around the world.
NASA practices for a visit to Mars in deserts of Southwest
WASHINGTON — What’s it like to be on an alien planet? According to NASA, it could be pretty similar to a trip to the Grand Canyon.
Well-known effect in breakfast cereal helps scientists understand the universe
WASHINGTON — Have you ever noticed how the last bits of cereal in the bowl always seem to cling to one another, making it easy to spoon up the remaining stragglers? Physicists have — and they’ve given it a name: the “Cheerios effect.”
U of M team working on NASA Solar Probe experiment
Here’s a research project that should have plenty of appeal during Minnesota’s upcoming dark and freezing winter days.
Upcoming local science-related events
Summer’s end marks the start of a new season of local science-related events, including several scheduled for the next couple of weeks.
Judge refuses to lift order halting stem cell research
The judge who halted federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research in August wasn’t budging this week.
Once the stuff of science fiction, laboratory tractor get real
WASHINGTON — Tractor beams, energy rays that can move objects, are a science fiction mainstay. But now they are becoming a reality — at least for moving very tiny objects.
Party like it’s 10000 BC: new archaeological find in Israel
By the standards of 12,000 years ago, the woman whose remains were found in a burial pit in an Israeli cave must have been one major dudette.
‘Unusual’ dinosaur offers glimpse of evolutionary quirk
Move over Vlad the Impaler; here comes Balaur bondoc. That’s the name scientists have given a new meat-eating dinosaur unearthed in southern Transylvania.
Exoplanets — as many of seven of them –spotted in newfound star system
There is another Sun-like star out there with an intriguing family of planets orbiting about and it could be the closest parallel to our own solar system that astronomers have found yet.
Gulf’s ‘dead zone’ swelled this summer to one of largest areas on record
At this point, no one knows the full impact of the summer’s tandem disasters on life in the Gulf, said Matt Rota, director of the water resources program for the Gulf Restoration Network.
Extreme sports in high India: an ultramarathon tests human endurance
LEH, India — Picture running a marathon, but at such Himalayan heights that it’s like running with one lung. Then imagine continuing for the length of another four marathons.
Bad bets: New study by University of Minnesota psychologist pinpoints where we go wrong
Even in wrong-headed gambling decisions there is some rationality, according to a new study by a University of Minnesota psychologist and colleagues. People go astray in trying to assign some sort of sequential order to independent events, which cha
Gulf oil spill to blame for oily blobs in vital Gulf sea life?
NEW ORLEANS — To find out how the food chain has been affected by the Gulf oil spill, marine scientists are closely monitoring this year’s spawn of blue crab — a key kind of plankton — in the Gulf of Mexico.
How can NASA help Chile miners trapped a half-mile underground?
WASHINGTON — They say every boy dreams at some point of being an astronaut, but it is doubtful the 33 Chile miners trapped about a half-mile underground ever compared their gritty occupation to exploring the heavens.