Freeze-thaw conditions and high winds helped shape sand pillars along Lake Michigan. The formations, also called sand hoodoos, appear when moisture in the sand freezes and hardens. They’re short-lived ...

The hourglass, one of mankind’s earliest forms of timekeeping, is at the forefront of a new, interactive display in the basement of the Engineering Center. But be warned—the team’s Logistics Manager ...

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Photoshop tutorial showing how to make text look like it's written in dry, fine beach sand from scratch. 2025 lookback: Trump yanks federal funding from NPR in move conservative advocates said was ...

Italian firm Magaldi Group, a specialist in ultra-high-temperature material handling, is poised to deploy its first large-scale application of a novel thermal energy storage system that uses a ...

The erosion of coastlines threatens property and ecosystems, but scientists may have found a shocking solution in the form of electrical zaps. Using small charges, they were able to create a ...

A new process that uses electricity to form a natural cement between grains of sand, transforming it into solid, immoveable rock. Professor Alessandro Rotta Loria; Andony Landivar Macias, former PhD ...

Claudia Colesie receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, grant NE/V000764/1) and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA, grant Darwin Plus DPLUS186, ...

To answer this, we will first have to look back to when the Great Lakes were formed and zero in on one mineral specifically. "Our dunes are quartz-rich," Michigan State University professor of ...