DUCK, N.C. — On the Outer Banks, sand is a valuable resource. Millions of dollars every year go into making sure there’s enough sand in the dunes to keep infrastructure intact and slowdown shoreline ...

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 ...

Sand is everything around us. It allows us to see. To build. To communicate. Sand is in everything from our microchips to our skyscrapers. From the moment humankind built its first mud structure, ...