Picture yourself in a wind-swept forest. Leaves are rustling and trunks are creaking as trees sway to and fro. This oscillation might seem precarious, but it’s actually an ancient adaptation: If pines ...

Chuck McQuinn knows a thing or two about being adaptable. For decades he was a vascular surgeon, first at Seattle’s Polyclinic and later at Kaiser Permanente. After retiring from that, he did what ...

Re: “Proposal to sell Seattle’s Wood Technology Center draws protest” (March 24, Northwest): At a time when we desperately need more builders, Seattle Community College is proposing shutting down the ...

Mid-State Technical College and Yavapai College announced a new program promising a faster path to a bachelor’s degree for business students. The colleges have created a three-year degree pathway for ...

A little more than a week after Marshall University announced it was cutting its women’s swimming and diving program, the Thundering Herd registered several strong performances at the American ...

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WASHINGTON — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine program has announced its 2026-2028 cohort of members, a group of 20 ...

Green-Wood Cemetery is moving forward to become the first cemetery in New York state to offer natural organic reduction. It's an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional burial and ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — More schools, including Ferris State University, are joining a partnership with the state to pay social work students to work in under-resourced Michigan communities after ...

LignoSat’s communications failed as it was launched from the International Space Station (ISS) on December 9th 2024 (see picture above). But it was a breakthrough all the same. For much of it was made ...

When ten school districts and a regional career center in Wood County, Ohio, set out to strengthen school safety, they didn’t begin by adding more cameras or metal detectors. Instead, they are ...

IN 2017 A FRENCH auctioneer sold a 200-year-old violin bow made by François Xavier Tourte, regarded as the Antonio Stradivari of bow-making, for a record €576,000 ($687,000). Tourte was among the ...