For ages 12 and older. How many grains of sand would it take to fill the universe? This is a problem that the Greek mathematician Archimedes tried to solve in the third century B.C. In this ...

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Their idea could allow the equivalent of a current hard drive to be stored in a cube of material the size of a grain of sand (1 mm on each side). Published in , their research combines elements of ...

Well, let's ask Vince Beiser! He wrote a book on the subject, called The World in a Grain. Vince Beiser: "So the sand that we use, is what you call 'marine sand.' It's the sand that you find at ...

Imagine a cloud of sensors, each the size of a grain of sand or even smaller, blown aloft by hurricane winds and relaying data on the storm to weather stations below. Picture an invisible sensor ...

For very small screens A team of Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs having created a pixel which is ...

This is Brendon Grimshaw's love story with Moyenne Island. We decided to distribute it openly so that his story may be known to as many people as possible and so that we may thank him in our ...

Tenor Mark Padmore presents a personal, chronological survey of modern English art song, from 19th-century ballad through Somervell and Elgar right up to the present day.