A team of researchers based in Norway and Japan might soon have you walking on desert sand, no matter how far from the dunes ...

Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of ...

The first time Sumaira Abdulali tangoed with the sand mafia, it was 2004. She was 43 years old and enjoying time with her husband and two kids at the family’s holiday home on the western coast of ...

A UT chemist says it is now time to develop tests for microplastics, similar to tests for other toxic threats.

Sand can be made to sing as you walk or slide along the surface. The music produced by a sand dune has been likened to the sound of thunder or a beating drum, and can be heard up to 10 km away. It's ...

Tiny crystals buried in Australia’s coastal sands have captured signals from space, helping scientists chart erosion and geological shifts across millions of years. Using a rare gas formed by cosmic ...

Nanoparticles are particles that exist on a nanometre scale (i.e., below 100 nm in at least one dimension). They can possess physical properties such as uniformity, conductance or special optical ...

Physicists have long categorized every elementary particle in our three-dimensional universe as being either a boson or a fermion—the former category mostly capturing force carriers like photons, the ...

Anchored by Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s superb performances, the British director Harry Lighton’s feature début brightens the bleak novel it’s based on. Two stunning new documentaries—one ...