Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author did some of her fieldwork at the Algodones Dunes in California. Ryan Ewing Our two-person team loaded the car with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sandsara is a tabletop kinetic sculpture that creates infinite art patterns in the sand. To the naked eye, it’s simply a ...

[Mark]’s sand table wisely has a glass top. Most of us have probably seen a video of a sand drawing table at work, in which a steel ball — magnetically-coupled to a gantry under a layer of sand — ...

Chladni figures are patterns that appear on surfaces when they are made to vibrate at certain resonances. It sounds dry, but throw in some sand and just the right frequencies and it becomes an amazing ...

Dunes develop when wind-blown sand organizes into patterns, most often in deserts and arid or semi-arid parts of the world. Every continent on Earth has dune fields, but dunes and dune-like sand ...