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 ...

Gardeners love loam soil because it's moist, soft and full of nutrients. Here's how to get more of it in your garden beds.

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 ...

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.

An curved arrow pointing right. A New Zealand beer company has created a machine that turns empty beer bottles into sand. DB Exports says the sand can then be used in construction projects that ...

Desert sand often has grains too round for use in construction and deserts are usually far from cities, while sand alternatives made by crushing rock are energy- and emissions-intensive.

To tackle this issue, we must first develop a plan to counter the rise in sea level based on an understanding of how the islands are able to produce, transport, and accumulate sand sedimentation. On ...