This article was originally featured on The Conversation. If you want to understand why some sandcastles are tall and have intricate structures while others are nearly shapeless lumps of sand, it ...

We've all been there, on the beach, looking at our sad, wet, dilapidated sand castle and wondering what went wrong. Science has the answer, of course. New research suggests that the less water you ...

Not all sand castles get washed away by the tide. "Rammed earth" is a construction method that uses composites of earth (commonly sand-based), clay, gravel and cement to build walls. The process isn't ...

After four years of experimenting, a photographer and an MIT researcher discovered how to etch microscopic drawings of magnificent castles onto single grains of sand. See their mind-blowing process ...

Growing up in Colorado, Calvin Seibert spent a lot of time at construction sites. Back then, the artist was thousands of miles away from an ocean, but that didn’t stop him from building castles out of ...