A group of researchers have created bubbles out of sand for the first time. While this might sound like child's play, these bubbles act almost exactly like bubbles in liquids, a fact that help ...

Engineers observed bubbles of sand moving within other sand, like oil droplets through water, in a first-of-its-kind observation. It’s difficult for scientists to understand the behavior of countless ...

One sprinkle of sand at a time, two artists recreated the moment a particle passed through a detector 30 years earlier. For 30 days, Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher spent about 12 hours per day ...

For a long time, the behavior of moving granular particles such as sand has been a mystery, even to scientists. When it's in motion, sand is strikingly similar to liquid, as seen in shifting sand ...

Strange bubbles have been spotted oozing from the sand on a beach with members of the public urged to stay away. Beachgoers reported the movement from the sand and in a pool on the seafront in ...

A new study shows how two types of sand can behave like light and heavy liquids, shedding light on geological processes from mudslides to volcanoes and potentially enabling new technologies from ...

CAHOKIA, Ill. — Even as many found cheer that floodwaters along the Mississippi River here would fall well short of what had been predicted, residents and the authorities in this town discovered a ...

A beachgoer was met with an unusual phenomenon after going for a weekend stroll on the sand. The man was enjoying his walk in Porthcawl, South Wales, when he noticed odd bubbles emerging from a pool ...