TOKYO, June 29 – A Japanese compact city policy designed to sustain urban services amid population decline has been linked to rising welfare burdens in smaller municipalities, according to new research. The study, led by…
NASA Invites Media to Preview Briefing on Spacecraft…
Media are invited to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a preview briefing on the agency’s Parker Solar Probe at 1 p.m. EDT Friday, July 20. The event will air live on NASA Television, the agency’s website and Facebook…
Study finds climate determines shapes of river basins
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- There are more than 1 million river basins carved into the topography of the United States, each collecting rainwater to feed the rivers that cut through them. Some basins are as small…
Lake bed reveals details about ancient Earth
HOUSTON – Sleuthing by a Rice University postdoctoral fellow is part of a new Nature paper that gives credence to theories about Earth's atmosphere 1.4 billion years ago. Rice's Justin Hayles and his colleagues, led by Peter…
New study puts a figure on sea-level rise…
[caption id="attachment_15549" align="alignnone" width="1280"] Rift propagation along the Larsen C Ice Shelf. This rift, which led to the calving of an iceberg twice the size of Luxembourg last year, raised questions about the future stability…