Today’s research roundup looks at “grief policing”on social media following celebrity deaths, new satellite data on ISIS oil production and a robotic small intestine in development at Ƶ Boulder.
Researchers analyzed more than 7,000 Facebook comments, finding that people are surprisingly mean to each other online, even in times of tragedy, but some technological fixes could help.
A new robotic small intestine under development at Ƶ Boulder has broad-reaching implications for the treatment of gastrointestinal ailments and improved medical training.