The McHenry Outdoor Theater stands as a monument to American leisure that refuses to be relegated to the history books, continuing to draw crowds from across Illinois and beyond with its simple but ...

Semiconductors and data centers are emerging as the critical leverage points of the physical backbone of the AI economy.

There’s a place in Mineral Point, Wisconsin where the phrase “one person’s trash is another person’s treasure” isn’t just a saying—it’s practically a religion. Crazy Frank’s Flea Market stands as a ...

Users can note which content they would like to view more frequently. Instagram is handing users some control in deciding what content they see. The social media giant is allowing users to have a say ...

After arriving as a young transfer ahead of the 2023 season, Carter Booth has grown into a key leadership role on the Wisconsin volleyball team. Coaches praise Booth's blocking, leadership and other ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

An “unprecedented resurgence” in bay scallops in Virginia could soon open the door for recreational fishing of the species, said scientists at William & Mary’s Batten School and the Virginia Institute ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

The giants of the Amazon are getting even bigger. A sweeping, new study has found the rainforest’s largest trees are not only holding their ground, but they’re thriving — growing, multiplying in ...

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...