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 ...

A friend spotted these unusual pointed sand forms (pictured) on a beach in northern Lake Michigan recently. My first thought was that the shapes had resulted from rain or waves that had been breaking ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Disney released time-lapse video of several sand sculptures taking shape last week on Castaway Cay.The sculptures were created by two professional sand artists.Castaway Cay is Disney Cruise Line's ...

Artists are shaping 41 sand sculptures throughout Yarmouth for the town's annual Summer Celebration. Three sculptures were completed before Memorial Day. Other 3-ton sand sculptures are popping up ...