TOKYO — A cart-like robot scuttles across the field to bring back javelins and discuses. A towering screen-on-wheels is designed for “virtual” attendance. The cute ones are, naturally, the likeness of the Olympic and Paralympic mascots. Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp., a major Olympic sponsor, is readying various robots for next year’s Tokyo Olympics. The [...]
WASHINGTON — Dr. Raeford Brown was uniquely positioned to help the U.S. government answer a critical question: Is a new version of the painkiller OxyContin helping fight the national opioid epidemic? An expert in pain treatment at the University of Kentucky, Brown led a panel of outside experts advising the Food and Drug Administration on [...]
The scorching hot Columbus housing market is not only not showing any signs of slowing down, it might be getting even hotter. A home sold in June sat on the market for just 23 days, according to new figures from Columbus Realtors. Five years ago homes were for sale an average of 62 days. The [...]
America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later, not many people know it even happened. It flowed in small towns like Elaine, Ark., in medium-size places such as Annapolis, Md., and Syracuse, N.Y., and in big cities like Washington and Chicago. Hundreds of African [...]
Originally devised as a recuperative therapy for athletes, plunge pools — both hot and cold — have become a prominent feature of high-end, exotic hotels and have begun to percolate into homes in both urban and suburban real estate. At depths between four and six feet deep, these smaller pools may be configured to fit [...]
RedBud Software Inc. offers a product that aims to improve the efficiency of certain tasks within the indoor agricultural space, including research greenhouses and the emerging cannabis industry. Based on research from The Ohio State University, the company’s browser-based software is marketed to the controlled environment agriculture, or CEA, industry. Bob Wiggins, the startup company’s [...]
DALLAS — A Dallas family has rescued a tiny chapel in Addison, Texas — the only church in the entire town — in hopes the revival of the historic site will provide a healing space for racial reconciliation. Don and Wanda Wesson, along with their son Donald, took a huge leap of faith when they [...]
As a liaison at the U.S. Department of Education, J Collins watched as colleges by the dozen rolled out varsity esports programs, complete with scholarships, coaches and even some arenas. Collins had a gnawing concern: Gaming was beginning to have an impact on education, and at least anecdotally, the benefits were going largely toward male [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion and lifestyle blogger Maui Bigelow has always been curvy and built a social media presence by embracing every pound. Until the worst happened. At nearly 380 pounds, her health took a dive. She was diagnosed with a blood cancer and multiple uterine fibroids that couldn’t be treated due to her [...]