On China's Loess Plateau, two decades of terracing, tree planting, and check dams cut the Yellow River's sediment load by close to 85 percent — reshaping the world's muddiest river, its delta, and the water balance of a region the size of France.
From about age 30, the water-rich discs between human vertebrae start to dry out, shortening most people by roughly a centimetre per decade. In orbit, freed from gravity, astronauts grow up to 5 centimetres taller — and Russian engineers have to remould their Soyuz landing seats to fit.
For forty-five years, the world was told the wrong story about the death of a small dog in space.
Try, for a moment, to hold the actual scale of what a 7-billion-year-old comet means.
Dushanbe, Sept 14, 2006 - Chinese special forces and Tajik troops are preparing for anti-terrorist exercises due to take place next week in the mountains of the ex-Soviet state, the Tajik defence ministry told AFP Thursday.
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