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Search Query Show Search NEWS EDUCATION MENTAL HEALTH: ON OUR MINDS POLITICS RACE GUNS & AMERICA ONE CRISIS AWAY MORE SPECIAL PROJECTS EDUCATION MENTAL HEALTH: ON OUR MINDS POLITICS RACE GUNS & AMERICA ONE CRISIS AWAY MORE SPECIAL PROJECTS RADIO INFO PODCASTS Consider This Gun Play Think Consider This Gun Play Think ART&SEEK KERA LEARN ABOUT KERA STAFF CONTACT TWITTER FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM YOUTUBE KERA STAFF CONTACT TWITTER FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM YOUTUBE MORE KERA KERA TV KERA KIDS CAREERS KERA PASSPORT KERA TV KERA KIDS CAREERS KERA PASSPORT © 2021 KERA News Menu News for North Texas Show Search Search Query Donate Play Live Radio Next Up: 0:00 0:00 Available On Air Stations On Air Now Playing KERA stream All Streams NEWS EDUCATION MENTAL HEALTH: ON OUR MINDS POLITICS RACE GUNS & AMERICA ONE CRISIS AWAY MORE SPECIAL PROJECTS EDUCATION MENTAL HEALTH: ON OUR MINDS POLITICS RACE GUNS & AMERICA ONE CRISIS AWAY MORE SPECIAL PROJECTS RADIO INFO PODCASTS Consider This Gun Play Think Consider This Gun Play Think ART&SEEK KERA LEARN ABOUT KERA STAFF CONTACT TWITTER FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM YOUTUBE KERA STAFF CONTACT TWITTER FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM YOUTUBE MORE KERA KERA TV KERA KIDS CAREERS KERA PASSPORT KERA TV KERA KIDS CAREERS KERA PASSPORT Breakthroughs Texas News Food Delivery Robots Roll Onto UT Dallas Campus Justin Martin , Spend some time on the campus of the University of Texas at Dallas, and you may see some robots roaming around. They're on a mission: delivering food and… Listen • 4:10 Texas News Fitbits For Cows? Tarleton State Professor Uses Tech To Track Cattle Justin Martin , Millions of people track their activities through wearable devices like the Apple Watch or Fitbit. Now a team at Tarleton State University in Stephenville… Listen • 3:57 Texas News Doctors In Zambia Use 'Virtual Reality' Developed At SMU To Train Surgeons Justin Martin , Virtual reality has advanced significantly in recent years. What was once mostly for video games and entertainment is now being used as a teaching tool —… Listen • 4:42 Texas News Bioengineered Glove Offers New Kind Of Healing For Hand Wounds Justin Martin , The human hand is complex, made up of 27 bones connected by joints and ligaments. The hand is also delicate and vulnerable, meaning hand injuries are… Listen • 4:00 Texas News UNT Health Science Center Project Focused On Understanding Pain Justin Martin , The UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth is pioneering a new way to combat back pain. It's called the Precision Pain Research Registry. Dr. John… Listen • 4:34 Texas News UNT Is Helping Shape Standards For Auditory Processing Disorder Testing Justin Martin , Auditory processing issues are common in children with autism spectrum disorder. Yet there are no set standards for testing for what doctors call auditory… Listen • 4:27 Education New Childhood Development Study Follows 300 Minority Families In North Texas Justin Martin , The Dallas Project on Education Pathways has been described as one of the most comprehensive studies into childhood development and school readiness in… Listen • 4:15 Health/Science/Tech Texas Woman's University Students Win NASA Award For Back-Supporting Space Shirt Justin Martin , A six-person team at Texas Woman's University in Denton designed a special type of shirt that targets lower back pain in astronauts. The students created… Listen • 4:03 Health/Science/Tech UTSW Researcher Wins 2019 Breakthrough Prize For Enzyme Discovery Justin Martin , A UT Southwestern Medical Center biochemist was recently named the winner of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his discovery of an enzyme… Listen • 3:54 Health/Science/Tech DNA Vaccine From UT-Southwestern Could Be A Game-Changer In Fight Against Alzheimer's Justin Martin , A radical new vaccine that reduces the two proteins linked to Alzheimer's disease should give the public hope, says the founding director of the… Listen • 4:03 Texas News Crafting New Weapons In Battle For Cybersecurity At UNT Justin Martin , Firewalls, anti-virus software and a whole galaxy of tools are employed to secure our online world. There's a daily, ongoing battle between cybercriminals… Texas News New Research Aims To Unlock The Puzzle Of PTSD Justin Martin , Post-traumatic stress disorder — or PTSD — is the most common mental health disorder among veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It can also… Listen • 4:49 Load More The best stories from KERA sent to your inbox. SUBSCRIBE Stay Connected twitter instagram facebook © 2021 KERA News KERA Kids and Family Art&Seek Tellyspotting KXT 91.7 Discussion Policy Contact Us...