Editor’s note: The following research is among the many talks that scientists from UChicago and its affiliated laboratories will present Feb. 13-17 at the annual meeting of the American Association ...

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Understanding how grains flow is vital for everything from landslide prediction to agricultural processing, and scientists aren’t very good at it. By Randall Munroe What is the softest sand in the ...

Johns Hopkins engineers have uncovered new details about how granular materials such as sand and rock behave under extreme impacts—findings that could someday help protect the Earth from dangerous ...

CLINTON — A student at Presbyterian College will spend this academic year conducting research for NASA that could potentially help scientists better understand Mars. Marigordon Varner, who is a junior ...