A new teaching credential is centering social and emotional development and playful learning in transitional kindergarten as ...

An internationally acclaimed artist, who creates moving pictures in sand, is bringing the art form to the UK for the first time. Ukrainian Oksana Merhut, known as the Sand Fairy, is touring with ...

An Alberta company that wants to mine silica sand and process it into solar panel glass in Manitoba says it has secured letters of intent from the federal and provincial governments to contribute ...

Watching your favourite candle finally burn out can be a sad sight, especially when the jar is so decorative. Luckily one cleaning expert has shared her foolproof method for giving a new life to used ...

The SandAI neural network was trained using modern quartz sand and can help unravel the histories encoded in ancient rocks. Shown here are ancient ripples formed by water currents being reworked by ...

A group of creatives led by Platform Agency will be creating a stunning sand art installation to celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori on Saturday, September 21, from 1 pm to 3 pm. In line with the ...

When he arrived at the Pharisee's house and took his place at table, a woman came in, who had a bad name in the town. She had heard he was dining with the Pharisee and had brought with her an ...

Being in a bunker is no fun. But being in a bunker when you’re unable to adapt to the conditions of the sand? That’s even worse. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve entered a greenside ...

Mount Maunganui’s Main Beach will this weekend be the canvas for a large sand art installation celebrating Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. Kenrick Smith, the sand artist behind many other large sand ...

Stanford researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based tool – dubbed SandAI – that can reveal the history of quartz sand grains going back hundreds of millions of years.

Scanning electron microscopy reveals the shape and texture of a quartz sand grain from the Mississippi River. The pictured sand grain is about 200 micrometers in length. Stanford researchers have ...