Hirebotics, a Nashville start-up, is bringing automation to small companies that lack the budget and expertise to go it alone. The firm not only rents out small robots, but also installs them, programs them, maintains them and tracks their productivity.  Hirebotics makes the investment to buy the right robot for the client. It then bills the client by the hour...

More and more bacteria are proving resistant to today’s arsenal of antibiotics. But researchers from the University of Oklahoma, St. Louis University and University of Tennessee may have cracked the problem. The team used a supercomputer to identify molecules in cells that disrupt bacterial proteins. They’re called efflux pumps, a major cause of antibiotic resistance. After the computer chose the...

Moderate exposure to e-cigarettes’ vapors kills the cells in your mouth that protect the body from dangerous bacteria, according to a new study from the Université Laval’s dental school. Researchers put epithelial cells, which line the mouth and repel bacteria, into a chamber and pumped in two five-second puffs of e-vapor each minute for 15 minutes a day. After three...

Now your cell phone has something for you to worry about besides cancer-causing radiation. Researchers at the Institute of NBC Defence and Tsinghua University in China heated lithium-ion batteries, the usual power source in cell phones and other portable devices, to higher-than-normal temperatures. The scientists found that, as temperatures rise, the batteries begin leaking as many as 100 noxious gases,...

President Donald Trump is at war with the media. And the media is at war with him. It’s a daily barrage of back and forths, with accusations of lies and fake news. Has the Fourth Estate lost its focus? Has it become personal? Has the media abandoned its role as the Fourth Estate, the unofficial fourth branch of government empowered to...

With nearly one in five subprime auto-loan borrowers two months or more behind on loan payments, echoes from the subprime mortgage crisis that kicked off The Panic of ’08 reverberate again. Delinquencies, according to Standard & Poor’s, are at highs not seen since 2010. That’s when the housing mortgage crisis peaked. Just as subprime home-loan borrowers secured loans with deplorable...

Pot fans have long touted marijuana’s medicinal effects. But a just-released massive report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine provides the good, bad and clearly unknown story about pot’s beneficial uses. And in many cases, the report can’t offer proof of claims that pot cures some cancers and other diseases. The report is based on an analysis...

Pot is hot. And it’s going to get hotter. Today, either recreational- or medical-use marijuana is legal in 28 states. And given pot’s resounding victory this past November, when four states approved recreational use and another four states legalized medical-marijuana measures, investors and entrepreneurs of all sizes and shapes have been looking to cash in. Trends are born, they grow,...

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