Moments in human history are etched into the Earth. Now researchers are piecing together evidence of our impact on the planet ...

For ages 12 and older. How many grains of sand would it take to fill the universe? This is a problem that the Greek mathematician Archimedes tried to solve in the third century B.C. In this ...

Vibrant layers of colorful sand blend and shift as each satisfying scoop reveals mesmerizing patterns beneath the surface.

A fine strainer presses into soft, vibrant orange sand, creating satisfying patterns and gentle indentations as it moves. The ...

I often have thought that the original content of Asian American identity, and thus the basis of Asian American culture was simply the construction of a counter-narrative -- an oppositional voice -- ...

Ask your students to think about different ways to make the sand grains stick together. One way to bind sand grains together is to mix it with cement and water, which produces concrete.

The phenomenon of "singing sand" is actually quite rare, but there's a place in Indiana where you can hear it. Indiana Dunes ...

Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth's beaches. At the same time, there are more H 2 O molecules in just 10 drops of water ...

And desert sand, like ocean waves, rolls and bounces. And these self-organizing individual grains create ever-shifting wave-shaped ripples on the dune’s surface. And human hands form images that ...