Sand
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This sandcastle isn't the kind that you make on the beach with a bucket and spade, but an ambitious project that has been declared the world's tallest sandcastle by Guinness World Records. Rising to 16.68 m (54.72 ft), it surpasses the previous record holder by almost 2 meters.
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No sign yet of giant sandworms, but NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has sent back images that show sand ripples on the Red Planet’s dunes are of a type not found on Earth’s deserts. Created by Mars’ thin atmosphere, the information has provided new clues on the history of the planet’s atmosphere.
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These two newly constructed hotels in the Netherlands put even the grandest and greatest bucket and spade creations to shame, taking the concept of a beach holiday to a whole new level in the process. The SandHotels are claimed to be the first in the world to be built entirely out of sand.
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The limitations of designing sleds built only for the narrow winter market inspired Germany's KHW, the self-described world leader in plastic toboggans, to develop a special sled purpose-built for the sand. Summertime is taking a snow day.
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Scientists recently studied one of the best sand-travelers in the animal kingdom – the sidewinder rattlesnake. After they analyzed its movement patterns and applied them to an existing snake-inspired robot, that robot was better able climb up sandy inclines.
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In an Egyptian tomb, a painting depicts someone pouring water into the sand in front of one of the sledges that hauled the blocks used in the pyramids. According to new research, by wetting the sand, as little as half as much pulling force would have been required to move those sledges.
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With their huge, soft tires that allow them to "float" over snow and sand, fatbikes have experienced a surge in popularity over the past few years. Now, California-based Standard Bearer Machines is offering a fat trike, known as the Rungu.
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Designer Peter Trimble has demonstrated a radical method of manufacture that addresses energy production and raw material shortage issues. Dupe is a portable machine that uses a mixture of sand, bacteria and urine to create a material called biostone.
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ScienceFour percent of the sand on Omaha Beach has been found to be from the degradation of shrapnel from D-Day.
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Research currently underway at MIT’s Distributed Robotic Laboratory (DRL) could lead to an innovative replicative manufacturing technique with the disruptive potential equal to that of 3D printing.
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Markus Kayser, an MA student at the Royal College of Art in London, has created a 3D printer called the Solar-Sinter that creates 3D objects using two things found in abundance in the desert - sun and sand.
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London-based design firm PostlerFeruson has designed a kind of 3D-printed sand tower that can cool public places in an energy-free way.
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