Innovation KC

Segment 1: 100 years since the 1918 epidemic, but we still battle influenza.Historians are still debating how many people died from the flu pandemic in…

Segment 1: How the invention of velcro inspired a scientific discipline.Learn about bio-mimicry, where scientists use to solve modern day problems with…

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, part of the nation's central banking system, is perhaps best known as a key provider of agricultural economic…

In a world where 884 million people don’t have access to water and 2.2 billion people don’t have sanitary toilet facilities, ending the global water…

Startups create thousands of new jobs each year in the Kansas City area. That's according to a new report released Wednesday by KCSourceLink. A program of…

Three years ago, Conner Hazelrigg was a sophomore at William Jewell College, in Liberty, Missouri, when a friend came back from a trip to Haiti. The…

Health care providers who work with kids are natural innovators, says Krista Nelson, Children’s Mercy Hospital’s director of innovation…

Over the last few years, the country’s tech giants — Google, Twitter and Facebook — have all been called out for their mostly white and mostly male…

Augie Grasis doesn’t shy away from the label “serial entrepreneur.”“I guess it’s true from the standpoint that I’ve had a number of startups,” says…

Being in high-school can feel like a full-time job — eight hours a day in the classroom, plus schoolwork to do at home.Throw in an after school job and a…

Callie England felt sick all the time. She went to doctors. She got her blood tested. By the time she was 21, she had taken more than 3,000 prescription…

If you go to the 2016 Kansas City Auto Show at Bartle Hall, you may spot among the shiny new SUVs and tricked-out sports cars something more incongruous.…