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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

The real story of North Korea's unicorn lair

North Korean state media has reported the discovery of the lair of a unicorn ridden by an ancient Korean king.

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

One mile beneath the earth, dark matter detector nears activation in gold mine

Scientists hoping to detect dark matter deep in a former South Dakota gold mine have taken the last major step before flipping the switch on their painstakingly delicate experiment.

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

The Radioactive Orchestra: Band uses nuclear isotopes to make music

Every second in your body, thousands of tiny isotopes are bursting with radioactive decay. And, all around you, imperceptible gamma rays explode in a brilliant but invisible lightshow. And they've just formed a live band.

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

M&M-loving bees make blue and green honey

Hives of candy-crazy bees in France are reportedly producing honey colored blue and green.

October 21, 2015

When humans broke off sex with neanderthals

Neanderthals apparently last interbred with the ancestors of today's Europeans after modern humans with advanced stone tools expanded out of Africa, researchers say.

October 21, 2015

New DNA codes for mammoths: Step toward bringing them back?

Scientists are getting their best look yet at the DNA code for the woolly mammoth, thanks to work that could be a step toward bringing back the extinct beast.