Have you ever wondered how kinetic sand from the store really works? You can make your own right at home using a few simple ...

Sand verbena, Abronia fragrans, has a moth pollination syndrome, or a suite of floral characters modified by natural selection driven by moth pollination. Its flowers are open all night but closed all ...

A team of leading international scientists has begun one of the most comprehensive studies on a sandy beach in the UK and will address the question ‘how many grains of sand move up and down the beach ...

Stanford researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based tool – dubbed SandAI – that can reveal the history of quartz sand grains going back hundreds of millions of years. With SandAI, ...

Although desert sands might seem to shift ceaselessly under the wind, scientists now find the grains of sand in the Namib Sand Sea in Africa have dwelled there for at least a million years. Analysis ...

Science is fascinating and increasingly there are opportunities for ordinary citizens and students to engage. At a recent meeting focused on Engineering With Nature solutions, I struck up a ...

While thinking about what to write about this week I took a walk on the beach. It was low tide and the beach was scoured clean of seaweed, just beautiful concentric grooves formed by the receding tide ...

Golden grains fall apart in smooth perfection, each slice revealing waves of calm satisfaction. The pure yellow sand glimmers ...

If you want to understand why some sandcastles are tall and have intricate structures while others are nearly shapeless lumps of sand, it helps to have a background in geotechnical engineering. As a ...

is a video producer, story editor, and reporter with over 10 years of experience crafting news and documentary video. Will joined The Verge in 2017. The world is running surprisingly low on sand.