It’s amazing just how much entertainment you can get from squeezing and smooshing silly putty. But what happens when you add an active ingredient in silly putty to another staple of children’s ...

Sandboxes will never be the same again. Picture this: You place a tiny model of a footstool inside a box filled with sand. A few seconds later, you reach into the box again and pull out a life-sized ...

New algorithms could enable heaps of "smart sand" that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous formation of new tools or duplication of broken mechanical parts. Imagine that you have a big box of ...

In the Varied Industries Building, Greg and Brandi Glenn have slowly morphed 50 tons of shapeless-bland sand into a sculpture representing the vast nature of Iowa's food production. Grain by grain, ...

Disney released time-lapse video of several sand sculptures taking shape last week on Castaway Cay.The sculptures were created by two professional sand artists.Castaway Cay is Disney Cruise Line's ...

EDMONDS — It took about an hour for Isaac, Sylvie and Ellery Nelson to construct a sand replica of a boat they recently spotted, named “Pazzaz.” Shells decorated its sides and a nautical flag ...

A friend spotted these unusual pointed sand forms (pictured below) on a beach in northern Lake Michigan recently. My first thought was that the shapes had resulted from rain or waves that had been ...

The need to introduce artificially manufactured sand is being felt as the demand for river sand is expected to double up in the next five years, officials said. Presently, dredging in the river basins ...