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 tiny particle smaller than a grain of sand ... struck Gaia at a very high speed and at just the wrong angle, damaging the spacecraft’s protective cover,” ESA officials reported in a July ...

This is Brendon Grimshaws love story with Moyenne Island We decided to distribute it openly so that his story may be known to as many people as possible and so that we may thank him in our ...

The phenomenon of "singing sand" is actually quite rare, but there's a place in Indiana where you can hear it. Indiana Dunes ...

Well, let's ask Vince Beiser! He wrote a book on the subject, called The World in a Grain. Vince Beiser: "So the sand that we use, is what you call 'marine sand.' It's the sand that you find at ...

Imagine a cloud of sensors, each the size of a grain of sand or even smaller, blown aloft by hurricane winds and relaying data on the storm to weather stations below. Picture an invisible sensor ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

“Sand and gravel represent the highest volume of raw material used on earth after water. Their use greatly exceeds their natural renewal rates” (UNEP, 2014). Each grain of sand originates from rock on ...

Tenor Mark Padmore presents a personal, chronological survey of modern English art song, from 19th-century ballad through Somervell and Elgar right up to the present day.