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.

In this latest episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, we discuss the science of sand dunes, and find out how dunes interact with each other as they move across the landscape. After that, we have ...

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 ...

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 ...