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 ...

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.

Physicists from the FOM Foundation and the University of Amsterdam have discovered that the ancient Egyptians used a clever trick to make it easier to transport heavy pyramid stones by sledge. The ...

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

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 ...