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

They said, if you assume a grain of sand has an average size and you calculate how many grains are in a teaspoon and then multiply by all the beaches and deserts in the world, the Earth has ...

Sand grains from around the world are mixed together like a pouch full of gems. The sand grains are from Maui, Hawaii, Japan, California, Ireland, Bermuda, and Minnesota.

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 ...

A Sand Grain Is Born "Well, what's sparkling are quartz grains. In a few million years, the granite of the Natural History Museum, exposed to the elements of New York, will begin to rot and ...

Between 10,000 and 100,000 microorganisms live on each single grain of sand, as revealed in a new study. This means that an individual grain of sand can have twice as many residents as, say, the ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with author Vince Beiser about his new book, The World in a Grain. The book tells the story of sand and the crucial role it plays in our lives.

The sand grains in Wildwood Crest-- most of the Wildwoods, actually -- are the smallest of any Jersey Shore beach, with an average size of .125 to .25 mm in diameter.

The FIB uses one screen to depict the electrons needed to see grains less than half a millimeter long and another to display the ions that etch the grain, resulting in a crisp image of a castle.

Once Martian sand grains hop, they don’t stop. That’s the conclusion of a new study that finds sand can move on Mars without much windy encouragement. Mars’ sandy surface has clearly been ...

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 ...

They said, if you assume a grain of sand has an average size and you calculate how many grains are in a teaspoon and then multiply by all the beaches and deserts in the world, the Earth has ...