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One of the easiest examples to understand is sand dunes, which maintain their overall shape despite winds and sandslides. Researchers at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center built an artificial dune, a tiny sandpile sitting on a sensitively balanced plate, to study this behavior in detail. In one experiment, they...
Not just a frivolous attempt to tamper with nature, the experiment could conceivably be the first step in providing extra daylight to sun-starved northern cities, extending planting and harvest periods and aiding nighttime rescue missions. Those goals will remain distant, however, until the Russians' space program, cash-starved after...
Tokyo, pulverized in 1996 by an amuck scientific experiment (Is there any other kind?), is in 2019 a place of repressive political reactionaries, marauding radicals and pill-popping motorcycle freebooters who do motorized combat with each other on the ramps of the city's elevated roadways. In this story, the...
Many critics have attacked the experiment, in which Boston University assumed control of Chelsea's public schools, calling it an unworkable precedent. Community leaders complain they have little input in the new changes, and two groups, the Chelsea Teachers Union and the Chelsea commission of Hispanic Affairs, have filed suit...
"I look at it as an experiment," Wasserman says. "Any relationship takes time to grow. But we were lucky the management team was here when the city's problems began."