A team from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has collaborated with researchers from ...

Singing sand dunes create a deep booming sound during avalanches due to synchronized sand grain vibrations under hot, dry ...

Scientists have estimated the answer to this age-old question. However, the vastness of these big, big numbers can be limited by our human... Here's an old, old, question, but this time with a ...

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, ...

Orbiting Saturn is a moon known as Titan, which is of high interest to scientists because it’s one of the few places in the Solar System that’s believed to harbor a sub-surface ocean, just like ...

There’s more to beach sand than meets the eye. It has stories to tell about the land, and an epic journey to the sea. That’s because mountains end their lives as sand on beaches. Over time, mountains ...

Did you eat cereal this morning? Or have you walked on a gravel path? Maybe you had a headache and had to take a pill? If you answered any of these questions with a yes, you interacted with a granular ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve already visited Utah’s “Mighty Five,” you’ll want to check out Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park next.

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 ...

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 ...