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A team of researchers based in Norway and Japan might soon have you walking on desert sand, no matter how far from the dunes ...

The globe may be running out of sand suitable for concrete. Researchers are therefore testing a possible solution for using desert sand as a material. The world's most important building material ...

The world is in crisis yet again. This time around, it’s a sand shortage. The most-extracted solid material in the world, and second-most used global resource behind water, sand is an unregulated ...