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 ...

A rare Behningia mayfly nymph has been rediscovered after 22 years without sightings, revealing key secrets about healthy ...

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.