Emily Elliot Gaffney believes that many students enter kindergarten “without a lot of hands-on experience with numbers,” causing some to fall behind. Without a foundational understanding of the relationship between numbers and quantities, Gaffney says, some students begin school “believing that math is almost a foreign language where they need to memorize answers to equations […]
Police in Colorado are looking for two children who have not been seen for years after the body of another child was found in a concrete-filled container this year, authorities in Pueblo said Wednesday. The remains of the child, whom Pueblo police did not identify in a statement, were found Jan. 10 in a container […]
A material that got its start in the Arizona desert is showing up in science journals with astounding reports that it could transform our buildings and infrastructure. That’s because Ferrock has proved to be a tougher and more planet-friendly material than concrete. It’s a story that started more than a decade ago at the University […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said the war in Gaza “is not escalating” as he wrapped up a Middle East tour aimed at preventing the fighting between Israel and Hamas – now in its fourth month – from spiralling into a wider regional conflict. “I don’t think the conflict is escalating. There […]
Moscow has refused to provide any explanation for a purported Russian missile that violated Polish airspace during its Dec. 29 mass attack on Ukraine, demanding “concrete evidence” before addressing the issue, the pro-Kremlin RIA Novosti propaganda agency reported, citing the Russian Federation’s Charge d’Affaires to Poland, Andrei Ordash. He dismissed Warsaw’s accusations as “groundless” and […]
As pedestrians head down Halsted Street in the Fulton Market district, a spiral structure in the middle of the Mews Pedway invites them to walk toward its center. At a glance, the coil seems to have been assembled with traditional construction materials. But looks are deceiving — these building blocks were made of microalgae. Dubbed […]
As heavy rainfall drenched Southern California on Wednesday, large concrete planters came crashing down at a shopping mall in Rolling Hills Estates. Around 60 to 80 feet of dirt-filled planters and flower boxes tumbled over a parking lot entrance at Promenade on the Peninsula around 2 p.m. A witness, Dana Graham, was sitting in his […]