Jacob Bourjaily stood before an audience of about 100 people who had come to hear him at the Schuler Books and Music store on 28th Street last Saturday and struggled a bit to shed some light on the...

Late summer and fall are the most likely times in metro Grand Rapids to catch an awesome natural phenomenon without risking life or limb -- waterspouts over Lake Michigan. With the right...

Jack Fisk knew he had a huge problem on his hands last Tuesday when bales of hay in his barn  that were smoldering from spontaneous combustion suddenly ignited "just like a bomb going off" as...

A catenary arch is a remarkable thing -- just think of the grandeur of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the tallest man-made monument in the United States. And it all started with observations from...

Grade schoolers in Grand Rapids, Mich. helped a research team to figure out the historically accurate way that Native Americans may have made maple sugar from tree sap, and the findings may change...

National TED lecturer and MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty turned the tables on a crowd of creatives who braved tornado warnings last night to hear his talk at GRid70 in Grand Rapids on the...