[Mark]’s sand table wisely has a glass top. Most of us have probably seen a video of a sand drawing table at work, in which a steel ball — magnetically-coupled to a gantry under a layer of sand — ...

The patience and precision involved with drawing geometric patterns in sand is right up a robot’s alley, and demonstrating this is [rob dobson]’s SandBot, a robot that draws patterns thanks to an arm ...

Chladni figures are patterns that appear on surfaces when they are made to vibrate at certain resonances. It sounds dry, but throw in some sand and just the right frequencies and it becomes an amazing ...

Saguenay Foundry is proud to introduce Nopatech™, a revolutionary sand moulding technology. Nopatech™ gives you complete freedom in your casting purchases. Moulds without patterns make rapid ...

Dense patterns made by sand bubbler crabs at Kewarra Beach north of Cairns. Source: John Brock If you’re lucky enough to get down to the beach this summer, you’ll probably notice evidence of a tiny ...

The Sandsara is a tabletop kinetic sculpture that creates infinite art patterns in the sand. To the naked eye, it’s simply a hypnotic, eye-catching piece — the sculpture’s tiny ball moves across the ...

Dunes develop when wind-blown sand organizes into patterns, most often in deserts and arid or semi-arid parts of the world. Every continent on Earth has dune fields, but dunes and dune-like sand ...

NASA has released some fascinating new images of Mars which reveal bizarre natural sand patterns that bare a striking resemblance to Morse code. In a post entitled ‘Martian Morse Code’, NASA explains ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, ...

Vast sand dunes are known to cover huge swathes of Mars. However, NASA has revealed a strange pattern on one they are struggling to explain. They believe this particular dune, appearing like turquoise ...