This video explains why a 6-layer raised garden bed built with kitchen waste works so well. We break down each layer, how organic materials decompose, improve soil structure, retain moisture, and ...

When a whale dies, its body sinks to the ocean floor and begins an extraordinary transformation. The remains become a rare ...

Globally, soils contain three times as much carbon as exists in the atmosphere and all plants, combined. Which means that understanding how soil microbes recycle organic materials—sometimes sending CO ...

Washington County police said they are looking for a married couple accused of living with a decomposing body for several months while continuing to cash the deceased person’s social security checks.

The decomposing body found in a Stamford, Conn., home following a deadly standoff last week was publicly identified Wednesday by police. Carmine Boccuzzi, who would have been 79 years old, was found ...

PADUCAH, Ky. (WSIL) — A death investigation is currently underway by the Paducah Police Department after a decomposing body was found in a wooded area near the 1300 block of Tennessee Street. Police ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...