What if every person you meet, including those you’ve yet to cross paths with, is quietly tethered to you by a single thread you can't even see? That's the premise of the invisible string theory. The ...

Before he became one of the biggest stars in bluegrass and country music, Billy Strings grew up in Muir, a small community located between Lansing and Grand Rapids. The Grammy Award-winning artist is ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — West Michigan’s Billy Strings won a third Grammy Award on Sunday night. The Muir native took home Best Bluegrass Album for “Highway Prayers,” which was released in ...

Biological systems are notoriously tough to model, especially when it comes to figuring out the axons, neurons, blood vessels, and other structural components of gray matter, or the tissue that makes ...

Billy Strings has confirmed a series of live shows that will serve as his official Summer Tour. The quick-picking golden boy has signed off on the venues associated with his 12-night run, after ...

Learning to play guitar as a young boy growing up in Michigan, Billy Strings never saw it as a viable career path. Instead, he assumed he’d eventually “wither away in prison” or end up a drug addict.

Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. Other mathematicians had their doubts. Now he says ...

Michigan native Billy Strings got the Tiny Desk Concert treatment this week on NPR's YouTube channel. Strings, now based in Nashville, Tennessee, is a west Michigan native. He grew up in Muir, a ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous scale and complexity. The effect is awe-inspiring. Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous ...

A dozen years ago this summer, I wrote one of the more impactful columns of my life. Not that it was necessarily impactful on the world — though it is something I still get asked about — but it ...

Correction: Billy Strings' mother is Debra Apostol. Her name was misspelled in an earlier version. LANSING - Debra Apostol, the mother of Grammy-winning artist Billy Strings, died Friday, June 20, ...