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They may have missed the heavy metal explosion of the 1980s, but this all-girl robotics team from Bronx High School of Science take their name from '80s rockers Iron Maiden. They show off their mechanical talents at the 2011 FIRST robotics competition held in New York City

Whether we want it or not, the "smart grid" is on its way. In this animated guide we show you the essential features.

When James Gurney set out to envisage the 90-million-year-old scene described in "Dinosaur Death Trap," he first turned to clay. Read more about the "Dinosaur Death Trap" here: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dinosaur-death-trap

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In 2008, a billion gallons of coal sludge broke free from a containment pond and poisoned nearby rivers. The disaster reveals a threat to other regions.The second video in the series

Much of the U.S. steel industry lies in ruin. Can renewable energies relight the fire of the American steel? The first video in the series "Beyond the Light Switch" produced with Detroit Public Television.

Brain scientists Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde explain the science behind the mental manipulations of gentleman thief Apollo Robbins.

New observations have led astronomers to suggest that Copernicus may have been wrong and Earth does have a special place in the universe: at the center of a gigantic cosmic void.

If you drank as a teenager, do not tell your kids about it. That's the lesson from Chelsea Lynn Jurman's study of teen drinking behavior.

Adi Rajagopalan's project was Modelling Synergistic Cellulolytic-Hemicellulolytic Enzyme Complexes for Lignocellulosic Hydrolysis

Aniruddha ("Ani") Sandeep Deshmukh, 17, of Bellarmine College Preparatory School in Cupertino, Calif.

Robot "autonomy" will be the next big advance in robotics, according to Elizabeth Charlotte Coquillette, 18, of Hathaway Brown School in Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Julia Dory Ransohoff, 17, a high schooler who studied stem cells meets President Obama the day he loosens stem cell regs

According to Smitha Ramakrishna, 17, Splenda can accumulate in the water supply after people excrete it.