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 ...

Knee-deep in a river of northern Thailand, scientists scooped up some sand with a net and sifted through it. Hidden between ...

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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 -- ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...