Oak Park resident Andrea Casarrubios is earning recognition for playing music, and for creating it. She is an in-demand cello soloist and an acclaimed composer, who has created commissioned works for ...

Churning waves crashed over an icy jetty in Lake Michigan off the coast of Michigan City, Indiana, as cold weather moved through the region on Sunday, December 14. Brandon Lee Clair, who operates ...

California-based Sonic Fire Tech has developed a new fire suppression system that uses sound waves to vibrate oxygen molecules, preventing them from readily mixing with fuel, disrupting combustion, ...

Forward-looking: When wildfires sweep through the dry hills outside Los Angeles, homes can be lost in moments. A California startup imagines a different outcome: as embers fall and nearby brush ...

My dad was always good at pointing them out whenever we visited the beach, or a lake, or just passed by a stream on a hike. He’d look into the water and say, “Do you see it? The trout!” I would gaze ...

The people who know how best to market to college students are other college students – and that’s doubly true on a social media platform whose entire user base is college students. Teddy Solomon and ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

On November 6, 2025, in Santa Cruz, California, USA, @DustinMulvaney shared a video capturing the raw power of the ocean. In the video, each wave crashes with a thunderous roar, sending sprays of ...

“Nouvelle Vague” may be French New Wave fan service, which works fine for me because I’m a fan of the French New Wave. If you care about film history, chances are you qualify as well. But what about ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is obsessed with codifying your biology. First it was scanning your eyeballs — and now it’s scanning your thoughts. The insight is based on a new hiring decision by Altman. He’s ...

Altman taps a leading researcher for his brain-computer interface startup, suggesting a much less invasive approach than Elon Musk’s Neuralink. Altman taps a leading researcher for his brain-computer ...

October is historically one of Bitcoin’s (BTC) best-performing months, but this year, BNB (BNB) is stealing the show. “Uptober” — coined to describe Bitcoin’s typically bullish Octobers — began on a ...