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The focus is on patients with traumatic brain injuries requiring surgery. Laura Ngwenya, MD, PhD, is the neurosurgical director of the study and oversees the implantation of an electrode strip to monitor the patients.

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

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."

A map of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky from 1911.

OKI Wanna Know: Why do some Cincinnati neighborhoods have randomly numbered streets?

Street names are the most popular of all the questions asked of OKI Wanna Know.

Serena Williams arrives at the LACMA Art + Film Gala on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. (

Black Tech Week — and Serena Williams — coming to Cincinnati in July

Some of the most innovative people in the world are coming to Cincinnati this summer for the newly relocated Black Tech Week, including tennis great Serena Williams, who will give the keynote during the five-day event.

Trees and fallen leaves conceal a dent in the ground.

OKI Wanna Know: What are the dents in the ground in the forest?

A listener wants to know if the pits in Miami Whitewater Forest are Civil War foxholes or something else.

Hubble's Runaway Black Hole (featuring Dr. Jennifer Wiseman)

An unusual “rogue” black hole is on the run! Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, the Hubble Space Telescope Senior Project Science Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, joins Dean Regas to discuss this mysterious finding. Music used in this episode is by Ziv Moran, BENJA, Diamonds and Ice, Nobou, and Tamuz Dekel. New episodes of Looking Up release every other Friday!

Artificial Intelligence is both helping and hurting journalists. Is regulation in the future?

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

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

Researchers put stains of sriracha, coffee, olive oil and punch on a piece of material and found that the Tide stain removal pen was just as effective in space as it was on earth. They also tested the stability of a liquid detergent.

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

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

NASA, ESA, CSA, Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), Ben Johnson (CfA), Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge), Marcia Rieke (University of Arizona), Daniel Eisenstein (CfA)

Pictures of the Early Universe (featuring Dr. Alan Dressler)

Dr. Alan Dressler discusses the James Webb Space Telescope and its ability to see galaxies in the throes of birth 13 billion years ago. The telescope takes pictures of galaxies with extreme sensitivity to infrared light, allowing astronomers to explore the earliest moments of the universe. The team found that galaxies were born with explosive bursts of star formation, unlike anything seen before. New episodes of Looking Up release every other Friday!

Actress and technology investor Issa Rae is one of 120 speakers at Black Tech Week in Cincinnati July 18-20

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

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

(from left) Alicia Manley, Nicole Hatfield, Program Chair Grace Yek and Matt Schmidt in the Culinary & Food Science Lab at Cincinnati State.

These Cincinnati State graduates may soon develop the next food craze

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

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