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(from left) Dr. Elizabeth Hobson, assistant professor in UC's Department of Biological Sciences and UC senior Sophia Clemen stand next to a cooler retrofitted as a 'studio' to record bobwhite mating calls.

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

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.

A computerized rail system is key to moving plants around at this 80 Acres' Hamilton operation.

Technology for indoor vertical farms is growing almost as fast as the plants they produce

80 Acres' new Boone County farm is more advanced than its flagship site in Hamilton, which Communications Manager Jed Portman says "is (now) the least sophisticated and least ambitious farm we'll ever build again."

Before a spinal cord stimulator is implanted doctors want to know if it will work on the patient. So before the operation they try out a temporary one to see what kind of difference it will make based on readings from computerized socks.

These 'smart socks' help determine treatment for back pain

Cincinnati's Mayfield Brain & Spine is collaborating with Lebanon, Ohio, technology company Palarum to determine if a person's gait can be a predictor of whether spinal cord stimulation will help relieve back pain

Business person chatting with a smart AI using an artificial intelligence chatbot development.

A tool catches ghostwriting and ChatGPT so students can't cheat. NKU is testing it

Auth+ quizzes students to verify they wrote what they're turning in.

You could be seeing these along a "Transcontinental Hydrogen Highway" as hydrogen vehicles fuel up.

Ohio starts to make its mark on the hydrogen market

Dayton's Millennium Reign Energy designs, manufactures and distributes hydrogen generators to fuel hydrogen fuel cell cars, forklifts, home and more.

A view of the Roebling Suspension Bridge from the northwest, including the concrete shaft. A ferry is docked beneath it, waiting to take on passengers on a sunny day.

OKI Wanna Know: What's in that shaft on the Roebling Suspension Bridge?

A concrete shaft on the side of the Roebling Suspension Bridge holds an important tool for river safety.

A Google Map shows a red outline around one square block in Pendleton, indicating falsely that it is outside of the 45202 ZIP Code.

OKI Wanna Know: Addressing address questions

Our feature OKI Wanna Know received a number of questions related to mailing addresses and decided to wrap them up into one episode and tie it with a bow.

This photo made Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, in Covington, Ky., shows the Mike Fink riverboat restaurant that closed in 2008. The restaurant that was popular for 40 years will be moved from it's mooring on the Ohio River across from downtown Cincinnati by the beginning of the year, its future uncertain.

OKI Wanna Know: Was Mike Fink more than a restaurant?

OKI Wanna Know seeks answers to your offbeat questions, including this one about the history of the Ohio River Valley.

A row of yellow brick apartment buildings sitting along Queen City Avenue.

OKI Wanna Know: Why are so many Cincinnati buildings made of yellow brick?

It comes down to two things: supply and fashion.

A woman crosses Vine Street at Third Street, from west to east, as traffic starts to move east to west. Streets are wet. Sidewalks are snow covered.

OKI Wanna Know: Why is Vine Street Cincinnati's main street?

A listener asks why Main Street isn't Cincinnati's, well, main street.

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