With vivid red pools on pale sand, Shoab Beach in Iran feels unreal. Nature paints with extreme contrasts here.

Humans can ‘feel’ hidden objects under sand from 2.76 inches away, revealing the surprising power of remote touch.

A global shortage of construction-grade sand is reshaping coastlines, destabilizing ecosystems, and putting activists in the ...

A man buried himself in sand for 24 hours in the Philippines as part of an extreme endurance experiment. What initially ...

Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The ...

Karnataka’s legal position on regulatory sand-boxing. Karnataka is one of the few Indian states (besides Telangana and Maharashtra) that can legitimately claim to have thought ahead on innovation ...

Zealandia, the world’s first fully fenced urban ecosanctuary, is taking a long view on conservation—and creating one of New ...

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot—the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising ...

I used a VPN to shop for flights and hotels in different countries to see if changing my location unlocks cheaper travel ...

All of which has yielded crisp views of many different Martian scenes, including the remnants of gaseous eruptions and impact ...

Larian Studios has taken the chance of a Reddit AMA to answer some of the most pressing questions from its fans concerning ...