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” ...

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 ...

CAROLINA BEACH, NC (WECT) - Residents near the Seahorse Lane beach access in Carolina Beach are fed up at their beach access, which they call Mount Carolina Beach. "This all started before Hurricane ...

Pittsburgh might not have its own beach, but that doesn’t mean it can’t have a giant sandcastle. Sculptors Rusty Croft and Kirk Rademaker from the Travel Channel’s show Sand Masters transformed a five ...

From one El Niño storm to the next, San Clemente continues to use a bulldozer this winter to build sand piles along the shore from North Beach to past T-Street Beach as a buffer against erosion. So ...

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) ...

Correction: This story previously said the sand cleanup was being done by the city of St. Petersburg. This has been corrected to St. Pete Beach. ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — The City of St. Pete ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...