The Ancient Art of Sand Navigation Traditional Berber caravans have navigated Morocco's desert regions for over a thousand ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images ...

Although desert sands might seem to shift ceaselessly under the wind, scientists now find the grains of sand in the Namib Sand Sea in Africa have dwelled there for at least a million years. Analysis ...

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Apple has commissioned an artist and design studio to create a permanent public sculpture at the Apple Park Visitor Center containing sand from deserts across the world. The sculpture, titled "Mirage, ...

CUPERTINO — A new public art sculpture made of sand from 58 of the world’s deserts will transform the appearance of an olive grove outside of the Apple campus’ visitor center by the summer of 2022.

Deserts tend to be foreboding places. By definition, they’re the harshest corners of the globe where water is the scarcest. You kind of need a plan if you’re going to one. Otherwise, well, your thirst ...