Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...

When you walk barefoot on a beach, you have billions of tiny grains beneath your feet. Soft, warm, sometimes sticky, these ...

The sand-verbena moth uses yellow sand verbena as its host plant, meaning that it is the site of oviposition and the sole food consumed by the caterpillars. The caterpillars have specialized mouth ...

Sand provides the structure, but it’s water between the sand grains that provides the force – in this case, suction – that holds the sand together.

Sand grains, according to the standards body ASTM International’s Unified Soil Classification System, are soil particles having a diameter of 0.003 inches (0.075 mm) to 0.187 inches (4.75 mm).

The shapes and textures of quartz grains speak to the processes that molded and transported them. A new tool from Stanford researchers enables quick, accurate, insightful analysis of this sand ...

A new AI tool can judge whether sand came from a beach, a river, a glacial deposit, or a wind-blown dune.

However, the week could have been ever better -- to the tune of $2.5 million more in earnings -- were it not for a few grains of sand and Theegala noticing something about them that only he could see.

Sand provides the structure, but it’s water between the sand grains that provides the force—in this case, suction—that holds the sand together.

Moments in human history are etched into the Earth. Now researchers are piecing together evidence of our impact on the planet – through the marks we've left on nature.

Sand grains that are very round and dry (moisture on the dune's surface can cause sand to clump together, inhibiting avalanching) Grains on the dune's surface that are "well sorted," meaning they ...

From capillary forces to sand grain shape, the simple mix of sand and water hides the complexity within.