A team of researchers based in Norway and Japan might soon have you walking on desert sand, no matter how far from the dunes you live. This group of engineers has developed a method to transform it ...

Winds blowing over a dune can move grains of sand in three main ways. What path these grains take depends on their size, although the exact size in each category can change from site to site. Think of ...

Chinese researchers have demonstrated that bacteria can bind loose desert sand into a stable, wind-resistant crust, offering a potential new tool against desertification in some of the world’s driest ...