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.

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

Ancient microbial activity preserved in deep seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where fragile traces of early ...

More than 30 years ago, a group of scientists planted 4,200 seeds of the rare Pitcher’s thistle in the sandy dunes of the ...

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 ...

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

SCOTTISH Labour have been criticised for “bending over backwards to protect the super-rich” after it emerged that the party ...

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

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