A team of managers at Loring Pasta Bar bought the Dinkytown restaurant from its owner Monday.The restaurant closed after the sale until its slated reopening Aug. 9 as the LRx: Loring and Pharmacy Bar....

At about 60,000 feet in the air, a tiny camera in a plastic foam box will livestream a solar eclipse for the first time.The University of Minnesota’s Gophernauts, the campus ballooning team, will attach...

More than 100,000 Americans are waiting for an organ transplant, and Minnesota researchers think pigs could help them.Miromatrix Medical Inc., an Eden Prairie biotechnology company, works to create human...

For monarch caterpillars, the world of horror movies is all too real.Killer parasitoids live and grow inside their bodies, then burst from their lifeless corpses.This gruesome relationship has been unexplored...

For the first time ever, a fish embryo survived being frozen and thawed, which could help preserve species and repopulate oceans.For decades, researchers have successfully cryopreserved — frozen...

How do people perceive different smiles?Sofia Lyford-Pike, University of Minnesota assistant professor, assembled a top-notch team to study just that.Lyford-Pike, a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon,...

Eight years ago, Seemore the sea turtle was swimming off the coast of Florida when she was stuck by a boat, cracking her shell. The accident left the green sea turtle with the deceptively cute named affliction,...

Zero gravity may cause a worrying condition in otherwise healthy astronauts.Researchers theorize zero gravity is causing increased skull pressure, which is the main culprit in a condition called papilledema,...

A team of University of Minnesota scientists has developed a futuristic method of 3D printing.Michael McAlpine, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University, and his lab created a new...