Amazon’s Alexa Fellowship expands to 14 more universities

Amazon is eager to get more bright minds working on voice technology, so it's expanding the Alexa Fellowship program to 14 more universities, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Texas A&M and Cambridge. The fellowships are financed t...

ICYMI: Hawaiian crows are our new favorite animal

Today on In Case You Missed It: Scientists filmed young Hawaiian crows and discovered that they're so smart, they figured out how to use tools to get food without ever having been taught by adult crows. There are very few Alala in the world, but so...

Surgical robot could sew you up better than a doctor

Surgical teams aren't fond of robots that could replace them (just ask Johnson & Johnson), but that doesn't mean they're completely against mechanical helpers. Children's National Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University recently tested a Sma...

NASA picks solar power candidates for deep space missions

NASA is going to need solar power if it wants to keep its future deep space missions running, and that means getting someone to build that light-gathering technology. Fortunately, the agency has some partners lined up. It just picked four solar pow...

ICYMI: 3D-printed ears, autonomous DARPA drones and more

Today on In Case You Missed It: Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine scientists have 3D-printed living tissue that can be transplanted into living animals, most notably an ear that grew new cartilage and blood vessels once under the skin...