NYS Office of Children & Family Services (OCFS) Commissioner Gladys Carrion responds to Renee Greco's murder. The 24 year old youth counselor was bludgeoned to death on June 8th while working alone at Avenue...
Olean State Senator Catharine Young announced Wednesday the creation of a new Special Legislative Task Force on fixing New York State's broken juvenile justice system. " The announcement of the Task Force comes in...
" Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur.And the...
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"Troy, N.Y. – Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper.
The nanoengineered battery is...
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"Flexible paper batteries could meet the energy demands of the next generation of gadgets, says a team of researchers.
They have produced a sample slightly larger than a postage stamp that can release about 2.3 volts, enough to illuminate a small light.
But the ambition is to...
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Eben Bayer grew up on a farm in Vermont learning the intricacies of
mushroom harvesting with his father. Now the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute graduate is using that experience to create an organic
insulation...
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A Rensselaer polytech (NY) student, Zane van Dusen, has developed a way to produce music with facial expressions."The team designed and implemented a computer interface that tracks the movement of a user’s...
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" March 27, 2007 New York - An afternoon fire that apparently started on a kitchen stove Sunday gutted apartments in a Broadway home in Rensselaer, leaving three families homeless, a fire official said. Firefighters had to awaken one resident in the building's basement...