Pensacola awarded $ 608,200 from FloridaCommerce through Defense Infrastructure Grant Program .

Project is slated to begin July 1 and is expected to be complete by April 1, 2026 .

Project will identify property near Naval Air Station and develop it for affordable housing for military personnel.

Outdoor education was a refuge for Los Angeles families during the pandemic.

The fires have burned schools, public and private schools, nature-based preschools, homeschool groups, summer camps and more.

It's not clear when the air quality in Griffith Park will be good enough to resume outdoor programs.

It can be healing to connect with the land after a disaster like the fires, Lila Higgins says.

Outdoor spaces can help children learn how to develop relationships with animals, understand orientation through space by following trails and map-reading.

Higgins says time in nature lowers heart rates, lowers blood pressure and helps children with attention-deficit disorder feel more calm and relaxed.

Thousands of Romanians rally outside the country's top court on Friday to protest the cancellation of the presidential election in which a pro-Russian candidate won the first round.

The Constitutional Court voided the election two days before the second round.

State documents showed frontrunner Calin Georgescu had benefitted from an unfair social media campaign likely orchestrated by Russia .

Alessio Zaccone: Amorphous state of matter is the most abundant form of visible matter in the universe.

An amorphous material is a solid whose molecules and atoms form disordered structures.

Topological defects are mathematically described as points of singularity within an ordered pattern.

They practically control the physical properties of crystals, such as their plastic yielding and melting.

Research interests range from statistical physics of disordered systems (random packings, jamming, glasses and the glass transition, colloids, nonequilibrium thermodynamics) to solid-state physics and superconductivity.

Research interests include the theory of thermally-activated reaction rate processes in shear flows.

German authorities confirm country's first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in nearly 40 years .

Disease causes fever and mouth blisters in cloven-hoofed ruminants such as cattle, swine, sheep and goats.

Measures to contain the highly infectious disease are being implemented.

Thousands of students protest in Serbia against violation of civil rights, spy agency crackdown.

The ongoing protests reflect wider discontent with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic ’s increasingly autocratic rule.

Pro-government media have bluntly published personal data of some of the protesters, which would not be possible without the involvement of Serbia 's secret service.

Åland has become a destination for Swedish parents wanting to homeschool their children.

The number of homeschooled children in Finland 's Ålands Islands has increased significantly over the past decade .

In Sweden , homeschooling is illegal, and some families have moved to the island from Sweden .

Supervisory teachers say they sometimes feel threatened by uncooperative parents.

India 's inflation rate came in just below expectations at 5.22% in December .

Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a 5.30% reading.

Annual growth in food prices eased to 8.39% from 9.04% in November .

In October , inflation rate hit a 14-month high of 6.21% , breaching the 6% tolerance limit of the Reserve Bank of India .

Pensacola will look to build affordable housing for military members on the city’s westside after winning a $ 600,000 state grant.

The Florida Department of Commerce awarded the city a $ 608,200 grant to acquire “strategically located land near Naval Air Station .

Escambia County won a grant award of $ 495,000 from the department to continue a program to buy properties near the bases.

Cape's exit comes as insurance industry ramps up its adoption of AI and predictive analytics technologies.

A 2024 survey by Conning found that 77% of insurers are in some stage of deploying AI .

With the tech, Moody’s plans to create a property database capable of delivering “address-specific” risk insights.