Magnified Sand is Robert Maronpot's ongoing microscopic photography project. He photographs individual sand grains up close, ...

There’s more to beach sand than meets the eye. It has stories to tell about the land, and an epic journey to the sea. That’s because mountains end their lives as sand on beaches. If you're enjoying ...

The mysteries of Earth’s evolution are locked inside rocks, from volcanic magma to frozen sediments and grains of sand. And UMass Lowell geoscientists hold some of the keys. Their research even yields ...

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 ...