JUNEAU – Today Representative Chris Tuck praised the findings of the 2012 Crime Summit, which indicated that there is a return to the state of $3 for every $1 invested in early childhood education.
Thanks to the presence of a natural “zoom lens†in space, University of Chicago scientists working with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a uniquely close-up look at the brightest gravitationally magnified galaxy yet discovered.
The 2011 Tohoku tsunami was Japan’s deadliest in more than 100 years. Despite an extraordinary level of preparedness by the Japanese, the tsunami caused more than 90 percent of the almost 20,000 fatalities last March.
STONY BROOK, NY, March 8, 2012 – A team of scientists, led by the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, used video cameras to count Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) inside and outside marine reserves on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef in the Caribbean Sea.