GULFPORT, Fla. — Inventors are always on the lookout for something new and exciting. Berkeley Grimball expected his one-of-a-kind instrument to sound different than anything ever made before. “I’m the ...

Paula Peper squinted and looked up at a line of palm trees near the California state Capitol on N Street. “Yeah, that’s gone,” the retired urban ecologist said, pointing to a California fan palm with ...

One of the things I have learned over years of hiking countless mountain miles is the ‘trail principle’. When hoping to get from point A to point B, I’ve tried (and failed) applying the mathematical ...