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Playing with sand - and fire - and tsunamis - and who knows what else?

Sand boxes are for kids (of any age), and, if they are specifically for adults, particularly military ones, they are referred to officially as sand tables (but...

December 1, 2011 7 min read

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December 2011

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

December 1, 2011 4 min read

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Extraordinary women–and a Gobi sand question

For one reason or another, I have been reading The Gobi Desert by Mildred Cable and Francesca French. In the history of exploration and enquiry into far-flung p...

November 1, 2011 6 min read

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Nikon’s Small World – and other images

Each year, Nikon holds its Small World microphotography competition and the results can always only be described as stunning. This year is no different – but wi...

November 1, 2011 3 min read

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Sand continuum - a modelling breakthrough

It’s happened again – a topic that I touched on in my Milan talk shows up in a New Scientist report from earlier this year (I only just caught up with it). In t...

November 1, 2011 4 min read

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Sunday sand: Komodo pink

No, these photos are not photoshopped – these are the real colours of this beach on Komodo Island: Simply spectacular, macroscopically and microscopically, and...

November 1, 2011 3 min read

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Suna

The calligraphy above translates from the Japanese as “sand sand sand sand.” Why my sudden interest in suna, as the Japanese word is transcribed? Simply because...

October 1, 2011 3 min read

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October 2011

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

October 1, 2011 3 min read

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August 2011

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

August 1, 2011 7 min read

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Military forensics: a reader's query

I have frequently noted my pleasure in regularly receiving “out of the blue” comments and e-mails – I find myself in contact with all kinds of people from aroun...

July 1, 2011 5 min read

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July 2011

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

July 1, 2011 3 min read

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Martian floods of tears - are the TSIs ESRs? Or is it just the total drag?

It’s always sobering to realise that we have a more detailed view of the surface of Mars than we do of the floors of our own oceans. And, while the evidence for...

June 1, 2011 9 min read