Workers on Jan. 29 began driving sand piles to shore up the soft seabed on the north side of Henoko in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, as part of the relocation of a U.S. air base in the prefecture.

What's more, a quick look at those sand piles will help you decode a secret that they kept from scientists for rather a long time. The sandy mounds are worm casts, effectively the poo, of a marine ...

We ask whether social welfare losses are indeed lower when supervisors intervene rather than not. We use the sand pile/Abelian model as a metaphor to model financial losses which, as sand grains that ...