Jada Renee always knew she wanted to be a professional artist, but she didn’t have a blueprint. Things started to come together for Renee’s artistic vision once she found out her family was selling her grandmother’s home in 2020. She wanted to keep the house in the family, so she worked with her business partner to buy it.“I had to basically make a proposal to get the property,” Renee says. “[I] brought my real estate mentor at the time to come over here and assist me with the presentation. It w...

Pet shelters and animal adoption agencies across the country have been at or near capacity since the COVID-19 pandemic, and in Northeast Ohio many facilities report having more animals than new families to adopt them.Shelters and humane societies often see a cycle in adoption patterns, said Kate Lumsden, shelter coordinator at the Medina County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in Seville.“In the summer, you'll see a lot of kittens get adopted because it's kitten season and...

NASA Glenn Research Center is developing a new technology to use ice on the moon and Mars to make fuel for space travel — increasing the potential distance and length of future expeditions.“Our wider goal is to develop the technologies needed for NASA's future missions,” said Evan Racine, an aerospace engineer and project manager at NASA Glenn.To explain the potential benefits to space travel of the fuel technology, called CryoFill, Racine uses the analogy of a long road trip from Cleveland to L...

Northeast Ohio has been under a deep freeze since January. Cleveland, specifically, didn’t see temperatures over freezing for 18 days in January and early February — the longest such streak since the winter of 2000 and 2001. Those temperatures caused 95% of the surface of Lake Erie to freeze.While experts warn that walking on the ice is dangerous under any circumstances, the extensive ice coverage has drawn some adventurous Northeast Ohioans to explore the surface of the lake on foot.At Clevelan...