Sandboxes will never be the same again. Picture this: You place a tiny model of a footstool inside a box filled with sand. A few seconds later, you reach into the box again and pull out a life-sized ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a robotic system for duplicating shapes that could someday allow spontaneous formation of new tools or replacements for broken objects. 'Smart pebbles' â?? cubes ...

A new study by UNSW scientists has shown how the presence – and absence – of dingoes affects the desert landscape. Removing predators from an ecosystem can have a domino effect that impacts the ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will soon present a paper describing algorithms that could eventually enable “smart sand”; self-sculpting sand that can take on any shape ...

Introduction -- Sand -- Winds and atmospheres -- Mechanics of sand transport -- Deposits of sand : ripples versus dunes -- Basic types of dunes -- Other dunes and other sand deposits -- Dune fields, ...

A team from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has collaborated with researchers from the University of Málaga (UMA) and the University of Córdoba (UCO) on an ...

A new algorithm developed by the Distributed Robotics Laboratory at MIT's Computer Science could lead to an exciting fast prototyping tool, being dubbed "smart sand." Immerse an object in the sand, ...

New algorithms could enable heaps of "smart sand" that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous formation of new tools or duplication of broken mechanical parts. Imagine that you have a big box of ...