Sand looks very different through a high-powered microscope. Photographer, biomedical researcher, and inventor Gary Greenberg started taking photos of sand grains with his own light microscope more ...

Next time you find yourself walking along a beach, stop for a second and shift your focus from the obvious beauty of the ocean to what’s underneath your feet. Sure, it probably looks like bunch of ...

Designer Marcelo Coelho and artist Vik Muniz have teamed up to etch microscopic castles onto single grains of sand in a painstaking art project -- more than four years in the making -- called ...

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. (Image credit: Michael Hasson) ...

Until now, most knew Vik Muniz as the São Paulo-born artist who transformed pieces of scrap metal, garbage, and otherwise inconsequential materials into large-scale works of art. Obsessed with the ...

is a video producer, story editor, and reporter with over 10 years of experience crafting news and documentary video. Will joined The Verge in 2017. The world is running surprisingly low on sand.