News tagged with metropolitan area

Study: Residential segregation still a problem in US

Despite increasing numbers of multiethnic neighborhoods in the United States, relatively few black or white families are actually moving into these types of communities, according to a new study in the June issue of the American So ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Buddhists and Hindus are on the rise nationally, study finds

Hindu and Buddhist groups have grown steadily in the United States since changes in immigration laws in 1965 and 1992, with particularly high concentrations in Texas, California, the New York Metropolitan Area, Illinois and ...

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created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Space shuttle discovery to fly over Washington metro area April 17

(Phys.org) -- NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Discovery mounted atop will fly approximately 1,500 feet above various parts of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, April 17.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Responding to the radiation threat

Berkeley Lab researchers are developing a promising treatment for safely decontaminating humans exposed to radioactive actinides from a major radiation exposure event, such as a nuclear reactor accident or ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New report finds Houston metropolitan area is more diverse, less segregated

Dramatic growth over the past 20 years has made Houston the most ethnically diverse large metropolitan area in the country and reduced its segregation, according to a new report from Rice University's Kinder Institute for ...

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created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research finds that after Chicago, Pittsburgh is the most decentralized metropolitan region in the nation

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2007, Pittsburgh, after Chicago, was the most decentralized metropolitan region in the United States, according to the Metropolitan Power Diffusion Index (MPDI) released by the Center for Metropolitan ...

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created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space Image: Eastern seaboard at night

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Expedition 30 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of much of the Atlantic coast of the United States.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The high price of losing manufacturing jobs: research

The loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs is a topic that can provoke heated arguments about globalization. But what do the cold, hard numbers reveal? How has the rise in foreign manufacturing competition actually affected the ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 108 | with audio podcast

'App Economy' is huge US job creator: study

The explosion of software applications for smartphones, tablet computers and Facebook has created nearly 500,000 jobs in the United States since 2007, according to a study published on Tuesday.

Technology / Software

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What investors have learned from the major earthquake

The Great East Japan Earthquake has dramatically altered the way the Japanese economy is seen. For example, the way that housing and real estate values are seen in Japan has changed since 3.11. Location value ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

When it comes to population growth, Houston is No. 1 (w/ video)

New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are still America's largest metropolitan areas, but none of the nation's 366 metropolitan areas added more people during the past decade than Houston. Based on a new extensive analysis of ...

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created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nearly one in ten toys in China unsafe: watchdog

China's safety watchdog has found nearly one in ten toys in the domestic market is unsafe, highlighting widespread quality problems in the country's poorly regulated manufacturing industry.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Shifting suburban hierarchy

If there’s strength in numbers, Chicago’s outer-ring towns gained big-time muscle from 2000 to 2010, according to a new analysis of census data by Northern Illinois University Geography Professor ...

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created May 25, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

30th annual survey shows Houstonians upbeat about city's future

Despite economic anxiety and concern for the future of the country, most Houstonians perceive an improving quality of life locally and 90 percent believe that Houston is a better place to live than most other metropolitan ...

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created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Larger cities drive growing wage gap between the rich and the poor, study shows

Why in the United States are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer?

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1