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 ...
University of California

Extracting rare earth elements from U.S. wastewaters

A new federally funded research project at the University of California, Davis, endeavors to extract valuable components for magnets, lasers and other modern technologies from an unlikely source: ...
WTHR

Bluegrass artist Billy Strings to perform 2 shows at Fishers Event Center next spring

Strings will be performing at the Fishers Event Center on Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25, 2026. The tour extension is in support of his latest full-length album, "Highway Prayers, which was ...
ucdavis.edu

Extracting Rare Earth Elements from U.S. Wastewaters

Rare earth elements are vital to new technologies and industry but hard to obtain. A new project led by UC Davis and funded by a grant from ARPA-E aims to develop acid-tolerant bacteria that can ...
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 ...
Taste of Country

Billy Strings Was Blindsided When He Learned His Mom’s Cause of Death

Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn't sick leading up to ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Wants to ‘Honor’ His Late Mom With a New Album Featuring Her Poetry

Billy Strings revealed that he wants to set his late mother’s poetry to music for a potential new album during an extensive interview about drug use and addiction on the Dopey podcast. Strings’ mother ...
Forbes

Extracting Useful Minerals From Industrial Waste With Plants And Fungi

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the founder of WildAid and Wildlife Alliance How can we procure critical minerals and meet the needs of the global economy ...
The New York Times

50 Pianos Rumble With the Sound of ‘11,000 Strings’

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 ...
Vulture

Plucked, Bowed, and Hammered: Georg Friedrich Haas’s 11,000 Strings

If you’ve ever spent a few hours in the woods at night, when bugs click, trees grumble, creatures of indeterminate size and ferocity trundle through the undergrowth, and coyotes howl in roving choirs, ...