Two years into one of NASA’s most ambitious missions, the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter continue to ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...

Offshore reefs, sand brought in from British Columbia and other ideas are being explored to battle chronic erosion that has wiped out the city’s beaches.

Photo: China Coast Guard displays the Chinese national flag at Tiexian Jiao in the South China Sea. The Global Times recently obtained an exclusive set of photographs, showing that in mid-April ...

The shapes and textures of quartz grains speak to the processes that molded and transported them. A new tool from Stanford researchers enables quick, accurate, insightful analysis of this sand ...

"This purification process used a raw silica sand sample from our Belmonte Project, in Bahia, Brazil. We did not use any chemical reagents and therefore we generate no polluting waste.

A major indicator of the hard-fought battle that took place on Omaha Beach in June 1944 can be found in the sand itself.

The CDC finds that leishmaniasis, a skin disease spread by sand flies, is spreading at low levels in the southern U.S. It was previously considered a tropical disease only be acquired abroad.

Leishmaniasis, a disease spread by a parasite carried by sand flies, is generally considered a tropical disease. Now, thanks to climate change, new research finds it's endemic to the United States.

A man headbutted a woman after she turned down a free pizza sample from a city centre bar, a court has been told.