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The real questions are, how autonomous are they now and how autonomous can they get?

How multiple lines of defense, from massive barriers to oyster reefs, can protect our cities from storm surges.

Cyberneticist Kevin Warwick is developing new ways for us to experience the world with more than just our five senses.

Matt Novak, author of the Paleofuture blog, answered questions about how good (or bad) we are at predicting the future.

Expert investigators reexamine one of the greatest murder mysteries of all time.

Handwriting analysis technology is helping scientists figure out who killed Lindbergh's baby.

Virtual autopsies give coroners incredibly detailed and telling images of victims’ bodies.

Our perceived world has gone beyond smart phones, goggles, and video games.

Meet scientists at the frontier of the mind-machine interface.

Explore a panoramic image of the control room at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station's training simulator.

Explore what holds atoms together to form the myriad chemical substances found in our world.

Think you know your stuff? Identify 10 mystery materials from a set of clues.

See the materials and technologies that go into a smartphone as well as their environmental impact.

Bacteria help us in all kinds of ways, from fermenting foods to aiding medicine, cleaning oil spills to mining minerals.

Using a new wireless charging system, plug-in electric cars may be able to shed their power cables entirely.

Developing clean energy technologies makes sense not only environmentally but economically, Nobelist Steven Chu argues.

Are workers at U.S. nuclear power plants prepared to deal with earthquakes, tsunamis, and other disasters?

Nanomaterials are used in consumer goods from cell phones to sunscreen. But how safe are they?

Hear from Greg Hall, the drilling expert whose team reached 33 Chilean miners trapped more than 2,000 feet underground.