China accelerates desert restoration: 3.5 billion-year-old microbes stabilize sand and protect ecosystems in months.

Scientists have succeeded in transforming desert sand into sustainable, eco-friendly bricks, offering a promising ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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.

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, ...