Sand — vital for concrete, glass, and land reclamation — is the planet’s second-most exploited resource after water. Many ...

Intense sand mining is putting the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia at risk of collapse with catastrophic ...

The SandAI neural network was trained using modern quartz sand and can help unravel the histories encoded in ancient rocks. Shown here are ancient ripples formed by water currents being reworked by ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A sand cat from ...

The mysteries of Earth’s evolution are locked inside rocks, from volcanic magma to frozen sediments and grains of sand. And UMass Lowell geoscientists hold some of the keys. Their research even yields ...

An entire town in Finland could very well get a lot of its heat from a giant sand battery before too long. The new battery has officially been announced and will be built by Polar Night Energy. It's a ...

A new study has uncovered the mystery of how mini sand dunes form on beaches and in deserts. A new study led by the University of Southampton and research institutes in France has uncovered the ...

Clouds of silicate sand exist high in exoplanet WASP-107b's atmosphere, new James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Italy is hoping its first sand battery plant could be a game-changer for decarbonizing industrial heat, but the are ...

Intense sand mining is putting the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia at risk of collapse with catastrophic ...