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A stroll on the beach can mean sinking your toes into smooth sand or walking firm-footed on a surface that appears almost solid. While both properties are commonplace, exactly what it is that makes ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A non-local theory is proposed to model dense granular flows. The idea is to describe the rearrangements occurring when a granular material is ...

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 ...