A team of researchers based in Norway and Japan might soon have you walking on desert sand, no matter how far from the dunes ...

Despite endless dunes at their doorstep, the UAE and Saudi Arabia spend millions each year importing special sand.

The globe may be running out of sand suitable for concrete. Researchers are therefore testing a possible solution for using desert sand as a material. The world's most important building material ...

Following its Foster + Partners-designed Visitor Center, Apple has made another new addition to its donut-shaped futuristic headquarters in Cupertino, California. This latest project isn't another ...

Scientists at the University of Sharjah report that they have successfully transformed desert sand into construction bricks ...

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 ...

David Thomas receives funding from NERC and The Leverhulme Trust. He is also affiliated with The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. The Dune films remind us of just how beautiful, mysterious, ...

Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a ...

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.

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, ...

Norwegian researchers use wood scraps and desert sand to create concrete blocks, potentially solving construction's river ...