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 ...

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 -- ...

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.

She goes through the motions, digging her heels into the sand, grains displaced with each flicking movement of her toes. Suddenly she bends forward and swiftly grasps a tiny creature, holding it ...

We use the sand pile/Abelian model as a metaphor to model financial losses which, as sand grains that fall onto a pile, eventually lead to a slide/failure. When capital in the system is insufficient ...