Banner image: Miles Moore and Jimmy Howe toss black sand onto a test plot on Niwot Ridge. (Credit: Kelsey Simpkins / CU Boulder) As temperatures soar in early September, it’s clear that Colorado’s ...

Surreal experiment unfolds when special hydrophobic sand refuses to get wet even after being fully submerged in water, ...

Fun in the sun, fun in the sand! Jessica Rice from the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts takes us step by step through a Watermelon Moon Sand science experiment.

March 27 (UPI) --New research suggests the sand grains on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, behave similar to the packing peanuts used in shipping boxes. Lab experiments suggest the granules become ...

As temperatures soar in early September, it’s clear that Colorado’s summers are lasting longer. They’re also starting earlier, with mountain snow melting away in May instead of June. As spring unfolds ...