Sand is among the most used natural resources on Earth, second only to water. It's an essential component of cell phones, ...

To put things in a more grounded perspective, the number of cells exceeds all the planet’s grains of sand by a factor of ... photosynthesis over two billion years ago, the rise of algae around ...

Worldwide, we go through 50 billion tons of sand every year ... He wrote a book on the subject, called The World in a Grain. Vince Beiser: "So the sand that we use, is what you call 'marine ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has generated the most comprehensive survey yet of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galactic ...

Each grain of sand originates from rock on a mountaintop ... and so roughly half of the estimated 40 billion metric tons of sand and gravel extracted every year for the construction industry, glass ...

Instead of being a youthful 400 million years old as commonly thought, the icy, shimmering rings could be around 4.5 billion years ... smaller than a grain of sand — prompting scientists ...