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October 21, 2015

Texas teen takes home $100G science prize

A high school student from Texas has won a $100,000 scholarship for scientific work that could help driverless cars and robots navigate around obstacles.

October 21, 2015

US science to plunge off fiscal cliff?

The American science programs that landed the first man on the moon, found cures for deadly diseases and bred crops that feed the world now face the possibility of becoming relics in the story of human progress.

October 21, 2015

Artificial muscles built from 'carbon yarn'

Muscles made from twisted strands of carbon yarn were able to pull more than 100,000 times their own weight in recent tests.

October 21, 2015

British, Japanese scientists win Nobel medicine prize

British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan have won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering that cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells

October 21, 2015

One mom's mission to encourage girls in science

Kelly Mathews is on a mission — to get more girls interested in STEM.

October 21, 2015

Obama gets first 3D-printed presidential portrait

To his list of firsts, Barack Obama can add that he was the first U.S. President to have himself scanned and 3D printed.

October 21, 2015

How to make a digital human brain

Futurists warn of a technological singularity on the not-too-distant horizon when artificial intelligence will equal and eventually surpass human intelligence.

October 21, 2015

Sequester cuts could hit scientists hard

An $85-billion across-the-board slash to funding for federal agencies and programs is set to take effect Friday, and many of the nation's top science agencies will feel the blow.

October 21, 2015

Small metal piece delays restart of CERN's Big Bang Machine anywhere from 2 days to 5 weeks

Officials say a minor glitch will delay the re-start of Europe's multi-billion dollar Large Hadron Collider either a couple of days or more than a month.

October 21, 2015

Atom smasher will renew hunt for strange particles in 2015

In 2015, the world's most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, will restart.