When periodic maintenance could no longer keep the storm sewer system of Biscayne Island at full functionality, the Miami Office of Capital Improvements & Transportation Program scheduled its ...

When most of us see a taffy-pulling machine cranking away on a touristy boardwalk, we think of sweet, sweet sugar. Jean-Luc Thiffeault thinks of sweet, sweet math. As an applied mathematician at the ...

The kids learn about pulleys. / Sally learns about a force called friction. The kids want to get a trunk up into the treehouse and go to the Machine-a-Ma-Zoo, where they’re introduced to simple ...

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