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. Advertisement Dubbed “ bio-blocks, ” they offer a zero-carbon substitute to their concrete alternatives and were engineered by Prometheus Materials and the Chicago-based

Aiofe Beary, who had survived the tragic 2015 Berkeley balcony collapse, has died after suffering a stroke in Dublin, Ireland.In 2015, she was one of the 13 people celebrating her 21st birthday on the fourth-floor balcony of a building in California when it collapsed.... They were on a J1 summer working visa programme to the US. Six of Beary’s friends died in the accident and she was left with life-changing injuries.... Beary was studying pharmacology at University College Dublin at the time o