Since arriving in the U.S. in 1980 from his native country Brazil, Cyro Baptista has emerged as one of the premier percussionists in the country. Coinciding with the rise in the public’s interest of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Mention unmanned drones these days and you’ll conjure images of tiny plane-like vehicles packing serious heat. Mention unmanned deep sea drones that look like umbrella-shaped aquatic critters and ...

Meet Cyro, the latest robotic jellyfish to emerge from the engineering labs at Virginia Tech. Cyro measures 5 feet, 7 inches across and weighs in at 170 pounds. Its design was based on the real-life ...

In the summer of 1980 I was living in Rio de Janeiro when I got the news that I was awarded with a kind of scholarship to go to the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock because of a cassette that I sent ...

Cyro Baptista will begin a six-day residency at The Stone in New York City tonight. The Trey Anastasio Band percussionist will be joined by a number of musicians like Billy Martin, Young Lions and ...

While there’s still a debate over whether the world’s real jellyfish population is exploding or not, a team at Virginia Tech is working hard to supplement the prehistoric blobs’ numbers with robotic ...

Back in the heyday of world-music fusions in the 1980s, tradition-minded players and fans worried that too much mixing of styles would result in a dreaded generic "worldbeat" that was a bit of ...

In a quiet corner of the AI Impact Summit pavilion, a robot with two arms and a pair of eyes is performing a task that has long been the "holy grail" of robotics: picking up objects it has never seen ...

When Cyro Baptista first arrived in America from Brazil, he would often busk in the streets of Manhattan to help make ends meet, including next to a nut cart in Columbus Circle. Now, over four decades ...