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 ...

In 2019, researchers revealed that some of the grains of sand on beaches near the Japanese city of Hiroshima are in fact particles of debris created when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city ...

For one billion people living in coastal areas around the world, these sand grains also defend against intense storms and sea level rise fueled by climate change. Coastal beaches and dunes act ...

It’s like multiplying the bottom of a bird cage and telling you how many grains of sand there are in the Sahara Desert.” Contact us at [email protected] ...

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 -- ...

Unregulated ocean sand extraction threatens marine ecosystems, disrupts habitats, and accelerates coastal erosion worldwide.

Devices that can turn on or off (like a switch) allow data to be stored. A team from the University of Chicago is working on an innovative method to achieve this, using crystals. In a ...

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.