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Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham at the National Press Club

Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham addresses the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He announces a prioritized list of major, new scientific facilities needed over the next 20 years to support research in areas that have been the traditional responsibility of the department.

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Judge says Internet phone regulation could slow Net's expansion

Allowing states to regulate companies that provide voice calls over the Internet as traditional telephone companies would conflict with federal law and could slow Internet growth, a Minnesota judge wrote Thursday.

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Paleontologists debate clues into dinosaur behavior

More than a thousand scientists who study dinosaurs and other long extinct creatures begin a convention in St. Paul this week to talk about their new discoveries.

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Minnesota native wins Nobel Prize for chemistry

Minnesota-born Peter Agre and another American, Roderick MacKinnon, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for studies of tiny transportation tunnels in cell walls, work that illuminates diseases of the heart, kidneys and nervous system. Agre's late father had predicted that Peter would one day win a Nobel Prize. His mother, Ellen, got the call at 6:45 Wednesday morning about the award.

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Minnesota battles beetle invasion

Minnesota homeowners are experiencing an invasion of Asian lady beetles. They cluster around buildings in large numbers during fall as they search for protected sites to spend the winter months. MPR's Dave Molpus talks beetles with entomologist Jeffrey Hahn.

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Trade mission gets mixed reviews

Gov. Pawlenty wrapped up his first trade mission by calling for greater cooperation between Minnesota and Montreal. The governor returned from the two-day trip on Tuesday, saying there are opportunities for business and research partnerships between the two regions in the area of biotechnology.

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Pawlenty may propose tax incentives for biotech

Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he may seek tax incentives for biotech research and investment in Minnesota. The governor is promoting Minnesota's biosciences and medical industries during his first trade mission in Montreal. The governor says the Canadian government offers much more generous tax breaks to the biotech industry.

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Incubating biotech and hoping it's the next golden egg

The Pawlenty administration and others watching the Minnesota economy see biotechnology as one bright light on the horizon. And no single place better captures Minnesota's biotech dreams than a sprawling, abandoned building on the western edge of St. Paul. The city bought the building this month to serve as a non-profit "incubator." Officials hope the empty space will nurture fledgling biotech entrepreneurs into tomorrow's powerhouse corporations.

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Minnesota banks on biotechnology

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty leads a trade delegation to Montreal this weekend to focus on biotechnology, as the governor tries to promote Minnesota as a place for biotech companies. Pawlenty and other biotech boosters say Minnesota is well poised to compete in the rush for biotech business. Skeptics say the state doesn't have the resources to become a major biotech player.

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North Woods dragonflies are migrating south

What's that flying by Duluth's Hawk Ridge? A bird? A plane? No! They are dragonflies, migrating south by the thousands. And now there's a new field guide so you can tell them apart.

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