Fifth graders at three Okaloosa County elementary schools are trading textbooks for tape measures through a hands-on building ...

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A math teacher at Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School faces multiple charges in connection to a relationship with a student.

Author Tracy Kidder did something extraordinary for the people of Western Massachusetts. In four acclaimed nonfiction books, he wrote about our neighbors, using his relentless curiosity to uncover and ...

If either transparency or diplomacy alone could secure a contested space, then the West Philippine Sea would have been calm and quiet decades ago. The uncomfortable truth is it has never been. Every ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

And I agree - somewhat - with tmatsci here: I don't believe an actual singularity exists at the center of a black hole. Firstly, on purely theoretical grounds, I don't believe any real infinities ...

What works in the boardroom typically doesn’t translate to the rest of the outside world. But that didn’t stop McDonald’s CEO from trying in a now-famous social media post that sparked a fast-food ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. There was some excitement this week at El Camino Real High during batting practice. JJ Saffie, the best power ...

Dr. Clayton is a mathematician. Candidates for quantitative jobs — like those on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley — are sometimes asked offbeat questions such as: How many Ping-Pong balls fit in a 747 ...

When legendary American skier Lindsey Vonn crashed out of the Olympics recently with a broken leg after attempting to compete with a torn ACL, commentators were quick to offer her story as an object ...