Apparently we can learn a lot from sand piles. Some years ago three physicists studying at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York, developed a computer program that would “build” ...

Formlessfinder was commissioned by Design Miami to create the temporary pavilion for the entrance to this year's fair. Although the gabled roof appears to be supported by the pyramid of sand at first ...

GALVESTON, Texas - The sand that blew from Porretto Beach over the seawall between Ninth and 10th streets this weekend piled up in miniature dunes in front of Tommy Hicks' house. The drifts that ...

Illegal sand piling by the Dhaka-Agartala International Highway in Brahmanbaria led to about 120-feet stretch of the highway to collapse into the Titas River early on Monday. Three sand traders ...

In 1999 Danish scientist Per Bak made the startling proposal that the brain remained stable for much the same reason a sand pile does; many small avalanches hold it at a balance point, where -- in the ...

Efforts to save the Rumney Marsh sand pile have ratcheted up with an online petition calling for action steps to preserve the area. Last fall, the state Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) ...

Sand piles mysteriously appearing on the beach in Point Pleasant Beach recently activated the social media rumor mill. Last weekend, Jerry Meaney, operator of the Facebook page Barnegat Bay Island, NJ ...

Madurai: The accumulation of sand on both sides of city roads is posing a danger to two-wheeler riders. Commuters say that the sand which gets accumulated on the roads is not cleared regularly. Even ...

Senior villagers make sandcastles in Mangshi city of Southwest China's Yunnan province to celebrate Sand-piling Festival. [Photo by Zhuang Yucong for chinadaily.com.cn] Sand-piling Festival kicked off ...