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 ...

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 -- ...

Their mission? To create a dul-tson-kyil-khor, or mandala of colored powders (commonly referred to in English as a sand mandala), over the course of five days. Constructing one of these intricate ...

Family members interviewed in the program, include NFL Hall of Famer and Super Bowl champion, Randy White, who describes the ...

I know what you're thinking, and no, we can't use sand from the desert. Wind erosion makes the grains too round for most purposes. We need angular sand that interlocks like pieces to a puzzle.

Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth's beaches. At the same time, there are more H 2 O molecules in just 10 drops of water ...

And desert sand, like ocean waves, rolls and bounces. And these self-organizing individual grains create ever-shifting wave-shaped ripples on the dune’s surface. And human hands form images that ...