Common causes could upend previous understandings. Sand ripples are fascinating. They are symmetrical, yet wind, which causes them, is very much not. Furthermore, they can be found on Mars and on Earth. They would be even more fascinating if the same effect found on Mars could be found here on … [continued]
Nobody thinks of rarity when they think of sand.
There’s a problem, though. In some places they’re actually running out of the stuff. No joke.
The Townie Go! 7D is a Townie through and through. Its beach cruiser frame comes in a traditional or step-through design to suit any lifestyle. It brings the same flat-footed designs Townie is known for into the age of electrification, but taps into a new generation of technology to make life even easier, if you can imagine that.
Central California, already painfully stressed by the worst drought in 50 years (which the US Drought Monitor designates as “extreme or exceptional drought,” the most serious category on the agency’s five-level scale), has another problem with its water supply. Aquifers that supply drinking and irrigation water have recently had to … [continued]
A new lithium ion battery that notably outperforms the industry standard across a wide variety of different parameters was recently created by researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering, through the use of a new “wonder material.” The new wonder material is, of course… sand. Yes. … [continued]
First there was the Life Straw. Then there was the Aquaduct Tricycle. Now ordinary sand could provide an answer to one of the thorniest problems of the future: how to purify drinking water for the many millions of people who don’t have access to a clean, disease-free source — and … [continued]
