A VR experimental device for playing DOOM on rats was built by neuroengineer Viktor Toth in 2021. The initial version presented by Toth involved putting a rat in a harness and placing it on a freely ...

SALT LAKE CITY — University of Utah engineers have given a bionic hand a mind of its own. Post-doctoral researcher Marshall Trout said a large percentage of amputees who get bionic hands — maybe 20% ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to help bionic limbs act more like natural ones. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on an experimental hand that shares control with the user to carry out tricky ...

The United Kingdom is set to begin injecting children—some as young as ten years old—with puberty-blocking drugs in what the Daily Mail calls the first NHS-backed clinical experiment of its kind. Two ...

The worlds of creative, AI, tech, and brands are all colliding in new ways in the generative AI age. To highlight talent operating in this next generation, London will host a new showcase for visual ...

Rats have gotten a bad reputation over the years for being dirty, garbage-eating carriers of disease. But these ubiquitous rodents are also clever and capable of learning complex tasks, even using ...

When it comes to unexpected horror stories, humans may never beat nature at its scariest. In Germany, rats reportedly like to intercept bats near hibernation sites, killing and feasting on the local ...

For decades, New York sidewalks were awash in piled-up black plastic rubbish bags, some of which doubled as housing projects for the city’s other inhabitants. “I’ve kicked bags of garbage in New York ...

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BEEVILLE, Texas — More than 300 students at St. Mary's Academy Charter School stepped into a whole new world of learning inside the Texas Mobile STEM Laboratory—one of nine high-tech labs traveling ...

PARK HILLS, Ky. — Notre Dame Academy in Park Hills is starting the school year with new leadership and a STEM Innovation Lab designed to prepare young women for future careers in technology and ...

Dave Carlin has covered major national news stories and events in the past four decades including Superstorm Sandy and its tri-state impacts, Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina and Iniki on Kauai, ...