Sue Vorenberg There is no scientific field called "river psychology," but that hasn't stopped Peter Vorobieff and his colleagues from trying to figure out why rivers behave the way they do. The ...

ANSWER: It would seem logical and natural for a river to run straight. Rivers that flow over gentle sloping ground do begin to curve back and forth. Such rivers are predictably called meandering ...

Feb. 7 (UPI) --Engineers and builders need to understand how rivers shift and meander over time, but new research suggests the conventional thinking on the behavior of bending rivers is flawed.

Inspection of the planform of meandering rivers indicates that they are generally not symmetric but display at least two forms of asymmetry indicative of flow direction. One is downchannel delay in ...