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Ann Thompson reports on the latest trends in technology and their effects on medicine, safety, the environment or entertainment.

Ann Thompson


    • Oct 9, 2023 LATEST EPISODE
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    Does AI have a place in church?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2023 4:56


    A German church even enabled an avatar to deliver the message. Other churches have utilized ChatGPT to write sermons.

    Sustainability is taking off with NASA and GE Aerospace partnership

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2023 4:53


    Hybrid electric and sustainable fuel are just a few programs the partnership has taken on.

    A device the size of a cell phone could help make a sky full of flying cars, drones and planes safer

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2023 5:09


    As the skies become more crowded, a device developed by a Cincinnati-based company could eventually keep the people flying in them safer.

    Suburban Dayton police are using a network of public and private cameras to solve crimes

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2023 5:14


    The ACLU of Ohio has concerns about how the program works.

    Dayton doctors successfully separated conjoined twins. A local tissue bank played a key role

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2023 5:01


    Solvita, formerly the Community Blood Center, harvested donated skull and hip bones and made it flexible to cover the boys heads.

    'This will be among the coolest summers for anyone born this year,' climate expert says

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2023 4:59


    Could places like Cincinnati be refuge?

    A Newport lab can determine which vitamins and minerals can help chronic pain sufferers

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2023 4:16


    The Foundation Pain Index, developed by Ethos Labs, uncovers the biochemical origins of pain.

    The Republic of Georgia wants to fight cybercrime. It's partnered with NKU to do it

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2023 4:33


    The Georgian government has sanctioned a cybersecurity master's degree program between St. Andrews Georgian University and Northern Kentucky University

    Bees make some very smart decisions. Their brains are now a model for AI

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2023 4:16


    Their fast and accurate decisions, like deciding which flowers to visit for nectar, could aid robots and self-driving vehicles.

    Ohio looks to increase the number of self-driving trucks on the roads. Next up: I-70

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2023 4:35


    The state is already testing self-driving vans in Southeast Ohio and partnering with East Logistics to deliver goods with automated trucks on interstates.

    These Cincinnati State graduates may soon develop the next food craze

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2023 4:58


    The chef-scientists are among the first to graduate with Cincinnati State's new Bachelor of Applied Science in Culinary and Food Science.

    Issa Rae is the keynote for this year's Black Tech Week. Here's what else to expect

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2023 4:09


    Beginning Tuesday, 3,000 entrepreneurs and investors will be in Cincinnati with hopes of increasing the number of African Americans in the tech sector.

    Journalism in the age of AI: How media companies are putting computers to use

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2023 4:56


    AI can sort through information quickly, translate and personalize data, but it can also cause news stories to be rife with errors.

    NASA Mars Habitat latest to use P&G's special space detergent

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2023 4:07


    Tide Infinity has already been tested in bottle form and as a stain removal pen on the International Space Station.

    The wristbands on Taylor Swift's Eras tour is just the start of how tech is changing the concert-going experience

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2023 3:57


    Concertgoers have gone from passive to active as the performers they've come to see engage them with all kinds of technology.

    A sweater that fools facial recognition cameras, and more ways designers are getting creative with tech

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2023 4:45


    Fashion designers are doing some pretty cool things with clothes, including an Italian startup which has designed knitted garments to shield facial recognition technology.

    After head trauma, heart attack or stroke, brain cells can continue dying for weeks. UC researchers have a possible prevention plan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2023 4:15


    A trial with traumatic brain injury patients will more closely monitor blood pressure, blood sugar and body temperature and if necessary, administer ketamine to prevent "brain tsunamis."

    Researchers look to variations of psychedelic drugs as the future of mental health treatment

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2023 4:14


    The University of Cincinnati will test derivatives of the psilocybin Miami University's Dr. Andrew Jones is developing in his lab. These don't have the "trip."

    'The future of flight is more electric.' GE Aerospace, NASA and Boeing announce next steps in developing a hybrid electric engine

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2023 4:23


    GE is investing another $20 million at the EPISCenter in Dayton to build its seventh test cell for hybrid electric aircraft engine testing

    Ukraine's use of technology on the battlefield might be setting the stage for the rest of the world

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2023 4:54


    Countries around the world are watching Ukraine's innovation and assessing their own innovation power, or "ability to invent, adopt and adapt new technologies."

    In the midst of mass shootings, touchless security screening systems gain traction

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2023 4:22


    You may have already walked through this technology without even knowing it was there.

    Scientists are in demand. This woman is helping to train them in her Newport lab

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2023 4:18


    Wood Hudson President Julia Carter, Ph.D., has partnered with the EPA and five pharmaceutical companies as students do research in her lab.

    A Cincinnati company has created a 'Roomba for coastal waterways'

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2023 4:13


    The autonomous cleaning robot for salt or freshwater weighs 400 pounds and can fit into the back of a pickup truck.

    Scientists are tracing how materials from other places ended up in Hopewell Culture artifacts

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 4:41


    Ball State Professor of Anthropology Mark Hill thinks it comes down to social networks, not trade.

    Agriculture drones are getting more popular. Are they accurate enough to spray crops?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2023 4:15


    The University of Dayton is holding a seminar May 24-25 for farmers, chemical manufacturers, drone applicators, and government officials to determine the best nozzle and its placement to cut down on spray drift.

    UC scholar helped shape new US Cybersecurity Strategy

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2023 4:01


    UC Political Science Professor and Chair of the Center for Cyber Strategy Richard Harknett played a key role in the new more aggressive US strategy

    The role robots play in getting your online orders to you

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2023 4:35


    The question is not, "Do companies like Amazon and DHL use robots?" it's how many robots do they use?

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    The Cincinnati Zoo is creating a massive behavioral database to better understand its animals

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2023 3:54


    Observations include: elephants putting little pine trees on their heads, hippos honking and the Komodo dragon waking up to dig for his newly hidden food.

    ChatGPT can help businesses with mundane tasks. Just don't put any trade secrets into the AI bot

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2023 4:23


    Once employees and corporate executives understand the risks, there are advantages to using ChatGPT and other programs.

    This supercomputer is helping Cincinnati Children's predict which kids might be at risk for anxiety

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2023 4:13


    Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center researchers are entering anonymous data from thousands of former patients to see if they can predict who might be predisposed to anxiety.

    VR headsets put caregivers in the shoes of those they are assisting

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2023 4:17


    The Council on Aging is better equipping caregivers for things like medication management, incontinence, hallucinations, and end of life conversations.

    Ohio National Guard unit selected for nation's first cyberspace wing

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2022 4:08


    The 179th Airlift wing in Mansfield will now be part of the emerging cyberspace national defense mission.

    A UD class is using math to help solve homelessness in Montgomery County

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2022 4:10


    "Engineering Systems for the Common Good" is a new class taught by Professor Rául Ordóñez. He was inspired to help people while growing up in Ecuador where poverty was all around him.

    This bobwhite quail 'recording studio' may help increase the bird's declining population

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2022 3:55


    University of Cincinnati researchers are incorporating such technology as recording equipment and QR codes as they study the social behavior and preservation of bobwhite quails.

    Kids' information is more valuable than adults'. That's one reason schools are getting hacked

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2022 4:18


    Not all school superintendents and school boards understand the risk and don't take the precautions they should, one expert says.

    How Earlham scientists found fossils in the Mojave Desert in 30 minutes

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2022 4:22


    Students flew drones and created digital landscape models from GPS data, allowing them to zero in on new fossils.

    NKU professor hopes to answer some questions of the universe with a device he's helping design

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2022 3:44


    Astrophysicist Scott Nutter is part of NASA's TIGERISS experiment, which hopes to answer where atoms essential for life come from.

    Meet the local company making artificial turf with walnuts instead of rubber

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2022 3:38


    It may be more expensive but it is more environmentally friendly. And the Motz Group, based in Newtown, has invented a way for the shells to be treated so people who are normally allergic to them don't react.

    Mini organs created in a Cincinnati Children's Hospital lab are making big discoveries

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2022 4:46


    The organoids, grown from human stem cells, can be customized to reflect specific disease conditions. The most recent involves the liver.

    GE Aviation successfully tests another engine on 100% sustainable jet fuel

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2022 4:27


    This is the second engine its tested with fuel made up entirely of fats, oils and greases.

    The mystery of the Cincinnati Art Museum's ancient horse sculpture, solved

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2022 4:03


    When the Cincinnati Art Museum's East Asian art curator Hou-mei Sung questioned the authenticity of a decorative tassel on an ancient horse sculpture, she turned to the University of Cincinnati chemistry department for answers.

    A rhino's horns may be the key to detecting a potentially fatal condition in the animal

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2022 4:16


    Iron overload disorder is killing black and Sumatran rhinos. Scientists at the Cincinnati Zoo wonder if too much iron in the horns may be an early indicator of the condition.

    A special ingredient helps this Cincinnati road suck in pollution

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2022 3:41


    Cincinnati is beginning to see the pollution-reducing effects of a common mineral that has long been used in Europe, Asia and Central America.

    Highway workers got a dose of virtual reality to help keep them safe

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2022 3:50


    University of Dayton researchers have developed software to not only train highway workers to respond to accidents but to track their physical and eye movement and pupil dilation so safety managers can analyze how they would behave in dangerous situations.

    This wearable health sensor could be a game-changer because it's chip-less

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 4:00


    UC Assistant Professor Yeongin Kim describes his sensor as a second skin. It's flexible and has more applications than the Fitbit and the Apple Watch, he says

    Ohio is already planning how flying cars and drones can deliver health care faster and better

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 4:27


    Jobs Ohio is creating corridors where the vehicles can transport blood, organs and different supplies between hospitals

    NKY company makes a splash with water filtration systems for Mars, eco-jets, big cities and you

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2022 3:54


    Erlanger's Aquisense Technologies uses LEDs as the UV light source instead of older-style UV tubes.

    This Cincinnati neuroscientist is hoping to find a cure for the disease she has: epilepsy

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2022 3:53


    CincyTech Director of Life Sciences Christin Godale, Ph.d., is now in a better place to either discover a cure herself or recommend investing in groundbreaking research others are doing.

    U.S. needs a foreign policy for cyberspace for what is now a 'fragmented and dangerous internet,' report says

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2022 3:49


    A task force formed by The Council on Foreign Relations has recommendations on what steps the U.S. should take.

    UC scientists are deep-freezing molecules. Here's why they're so excited about it

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2022 4:14


    Cryo-EM is groundbreaking in the field of structural biology, allowing researchers to get a better look at complex proteins. This is valuable for studying any kind of proteins that are related to any kind of human disease.Now, UC has the technology to do it.

    Living on the moon and Mars will require power. Here's how you'll get it

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2022 3:34


    NASA researchers are working with the Department of Energy to create a nuclear fission power station. In June, the space agency chose three companies to draw up preliminary designs.

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