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 Matthew Feddersen, 17, and Blake Marggraff, 18, from Lafayette, California were awarded the top prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a program of Society for Science & the Public, which also publishes Science News for Kids. They shared $75,000 and the Gordon E. Moore Award, in honor of the Intel co-founder and retired chairman and CEO, for developing a potentially more effective and less expensive cancer treatment that places tin near a tumor before radiation therapy.
Read the Science News for Kids story.
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WW11 Women Aviators Receive Congressional Gold Medal |
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 Women who flew planes during World War 11 were not considered “real pilots” even though they were members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs. WASPs were the first women to fly military planes.
Their service was unrecognized. Thirty-eight WASPs died in service, but their coffins were not draped in a flag since they were not officially in the military. Many had to pay their own bus fare home when the war ended.
That all changed, on March 10, 2010 when the women received the Congressional Gold Medal in a ceremony on Capitol Hill. The women now in their 80s and 90s arrived in Washington, D.C. from their homes across the United States.
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 Meet Nico! He is the same size that you were when you were one-year-old. He is a humanoid robot, which means that he is a robot whose appearance is based on the human body. He has an important job as he is helping scientists understand how babies develop speech and social skills.
Although Nico moves and talks, he is not alive. If you said hello to Nico, he would respond with a greeting, but he can not be creative in his responses. In other words, if you asked him about his favorite soccer team he could tell you the name of the team but, he could not tell you about recent games or players.
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Seals Use Technology to Help Scientists |
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 The Weddell Seal is one of the new recruits for scientists studying the habits of fish. The seals equipped with video cameras, infrared LEDs and data recorders serve as the scientists "eyes" to see what goes on underneath the Antarctic ice.
The Weddell Seals can reach almost 10 feet in length and weigh almost 1,000 pounds. Despite their large size they can swim at high speeds and capture scientific information about fish behavior and distribution. The project is called "seal cam".
This is a photo of a bald rockcod taken by a seal cam. Pretty good for a beginner! 
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