“Build a Better World” is the summer reading theme at Arlington Heights Memorial Library, 500 N. Dunton Ave. Giant balloon whiz Smarty Pants’ inventive show will follow that theme 11 a.m.-noon July 15 ...

According to Google, more than half of the world's population is still without Internet access. One of Google's ambitious goals is to change that statistic. That's no easy task for several reasons, ...

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Human flight turns 222 years old on Monday. The hot air balloon was the first sustainable form of flight, with the first passengers, (a sheep, duck, and rooster) taking to the skies on September 19, ...

Astro Teller knows how to draw attention. As the director of X, aka the "moonshoot factory," he famously navigates the Google campus on rollerblades, even indoors. He was wearing his rollerblades on ...

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It took two rooms to hold the gear for the six-member skydiving crew. One smelled sharp — the odor came from the pyrotechnics, explained Yulia Pangburg, one of the skydivers suiting up to jump over ...