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Observers look over an exhibition featuring some of the Ukrainian technologies being used on the battlefield as a part of a presentation of the new so-called BRAVE1 initiative, held in an underground parking lot in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. The Ukrainian government on Wednesday launched the initiative meant to streamline and promote innovation in the development of drones and other technologies that have been critical in the war with Russia.

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

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

This is a rendering of a hybrid electric engine system. This decade GE Aerospace, NASA and Boeing are on track to test a hybrid electric propulsion system on the ground and in the air using a modified Saab 340B aircraft and GE's CT7 engines.

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

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

(from left) UC Neuroscientist Eric Wohleb, Miami University's Chemical and Biomedical engineer Andrew Jones and UC graduate student Alex Kuhn look at the effects of the drug ketamine, also considered a psychedelic in subanesthetic doses, in the brain synapses of mice.

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

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."

(from left) Mt. St. Joe student Aaron Palmisano is one of many students Wood Hudson CEO Julia Carter, PhD and her staff have trained to become scientists.

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

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

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.

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.

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