For ages 12 and older. How many grains of sand would it take to fill the universe? This is a problem that the Greek mathematician Archimedes tried to solve in the third century B.C. In this ...

It’s like multiplying the bottom of a bird cage and telling you how many grains of sand there are in the Sahara Desert.” Contact us at [email protected] ...

I often have thought that the original content of Asian American identity, and thus the basis of Asian American culture was simply the construction of a counter-narrative -- an oppositional voice -- ...

Devices that can turn on or off (like a switch) allow data to be stored. A team from the University of Chicago is working on an innovative method to achieve this, using crystals. In a ...

Their mission? To create a dul-tson-kyil-khor, or mandala of colored powders (commonly referred to in English as a sand mandala), over the course of five days. Constructing one of these intricate ...

About the size of a grain of sand, the new sensor is “squishy” and can break down in the body in just over a month. The hope for the biodegradable sensor is that it could be used for health ...

Their idea could allow the equivalent of a current hard drive to be stored in a cube of material the size of a grain of sand (1 mm on each side). Published in Nanophotonics, their research combines ...