China accelerates desert restoration: 3.5 billion-year-old microbes stabilize sand and protect ecosystems in months.

Chinese scientists spray lab-grown cyanobacteria onto desert sand to create fertile farmable soil in 10 months, reducing wind ...

Following its Foster + Partners-designed Visitor Center, Apple has made another new addition to its donut-shaped futuristic headquarters in Cupertino, California. This latest project isn't another ...

Construction crews are literally dredging rivers dry while sitting next to infinite piles of worthless sand. That paradox might finally have a solution, thanks to researchers who figured out how to ...

The globe may be running out of sand suitable for concrete. Researchers are therefore testing a possible solution for using desert sand as a material. The world's most important building material ...

Desert soil often looks lifeless, but it’s full of microscopic organisms like bacteria and fungi that help cycle nutrients ...

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The rugged and beautiful Greek island of Lemnos is home to a desert in the Gomati area, to the island's north.

David Thomas receives funding from NERC and The Leverhulme Trust. He is also affiliated with The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. The Dune films remind us of just how beautiful, mysterious, ...

CUPERTINO — A new public art sculpture made of sand from 58 of the world’s deserts will transform the appearance of an olive grove outside of the Apple campus’ visitor center by the summer of 2022.

Apple has commissioned an artist and design studio to create a permanent public sculpture at the Apple Park Visitor Center containing sand from deserts across the world. The sculpture, titled "Mirage, ...