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Billy Strings wins Best Bluegrass Album for 'Highway Prayers'

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Third time's a charm! Michigan native Billy Strings won a Grammy award Sunday for his latest album, making it his third time taking home a golden gramophone. The bluegrass star ...
Popular Mechanics

This Radical Theory Could Explain the Nature of Reality—And How Your Brain Evolved

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 ...
MLive

Billy Strings officially confirms Ionia County homecoming with summer shows

IONIA COUNTY, MI — Two week after teasing an Ionia County homecoming, bluegrass phenom Billy Strings made it official. Strings, born William Apostol, announced Tuesday, Jan. 27, that he would be ...
InfoQ

MIT's Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...
Scientific American

Does String Theory Explain the Wiring of the Brain?

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human brain? If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our ...
Seeking Alpha

Recursion Pharmaceuticals: Upgrading To Buy - My Most Surprising Call Of 2025

When I last covered the self-styled TechBio company Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (RXRX) in early October, I was attempting to find reasons why the company's share price was on the rise, up from ~$4 ...
Quanta Magazine

String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof

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 ...
NPR

Billy Strings: Tiny Desk Concert

It's rare these days for an artist to ask for fewer microphones, but after warming up in our space, Billy Strings did just that. Surrounded by his band, the bluegrass virtuoso brings back the spirit ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Makes His Debut on ‘Tiny Desk’ After Sending Audition Tape: ‘It Only Took 12 More Years’

Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...
Reuters

Recursion Pharma's AI-powered therapy reduces polyp growth in a rare disease trial

Dec 8 (Reuters) - Recursion Pharma (RXRX.O), opens new tab, which uses artificial intelligence to discover new drug candidates, said on Monday its experimental oral drug helped reduce abnormal growths ...
People

Billy Strings Says He's Still in 'Denial' Over His Mom's Shocking Cause of Death: 'It Was Just Unnecessary'

The bluegrass musician's mom Debra died of a drug overdose in June Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has ...