Musical robots take stage in Souers

Dana Jessen and Michael Strauss, members of the Electro Acoustic Reed Duo, performed alongside a robitically plucked guitar chord and an electronic clarinet.

First-year LEGO robotics team wins regional competition

In the basement of coach Shannon Jefferson's home in Charlotte, from October to January, nine young scientists could be found working furiously to program robots, build LEGO structures and conduct experiments.

President Plays With Marshmallows at White House Science Fair

"The Secret Service isn't happy about this," President Barack Obama joked with eighth-grader Joey Hudy, of Phoenix, Ariz., as he convinced the kid to launch a marshmallow across the crowded room today (Feb. 7) at the White House.

Liberty Science Center in Jersey City hosts homemade robot competition for high-school students

At the sound of the buzzer, each robot took off from its starting position. The goal: To push a bowling ball across a white line within 30 seconds, The Jersey Journal reports. Students from high schools across the state...

'Gremlin' Sensor Will Find Bombs by Vibrating the Ground

How to find homemade bombs buried beneath a road? One possibility, courtesy of the Navy's mad scientists: create a virtual subterranean image of the ground ahead by vibrating the turf with sound waves. That's the Gremlin, the military's newest bomb detection project.