Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us.

A recent study suggests that left-handed people have an advantage in competitive contexts, while righties tend to cooperate better. Firewire makes the most innovative surfboards in the industry. This ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, ...

Chladni figures are patterns that appear on surfaces when they are made to vibrate at certain resonances. It sounds dry, but throw in some sand and just the right frequencies and it becomes an amazing ...

[Mark]’s sand table wisely has a glass top. Most of us have probably seen a video of a sand drawing table at work, in which a steel ball — magnetically-coupled to a gantry under a layer of sand — ...