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A team of scientists in the UK have developed a biodegradable construction material made from desert sand – a resource that has until now been useless for construction. Called Finite ...

At high noon on a Saturday, the last aluminum pour of the day is about to commence at the Yucca Valley Material Lab ... building plopped in the Mojave Desert,” Schwegler said.

(Lance Gerber/Courtesy Desert X) In To Breathe – Coachella Valley, Kimsooja wants the audience to “interact with the essential elements of the dessert: the texture of sand underfoot ...

Researchers at the Imperial College London have invented a new building material that uses smooth desert sand–useless for construction until now–instead of the gritty sand needed to make concrete.

The desert, which does attract around 30,000 ... pebbles down into what is known as glacial silt—a granular material with a texture somewhere between sand and clay. Layers of glacial silt ...

In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower ... They're applying this to a new raw material. CARLSON: But Ignacio also ...

“The hardest part is that we are drawn to materials that just are more labor intensive; we’re attracted to more texture," says ... honey-tone wood." The desert’s culture and beauty are ...

Engineers synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of moisture from the air, even in desert-like conditions. MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material ...

Shepherd’s material, for example, can change texture about as fast as an actual octopus, but it can only make one rough shape at a time. The animal, meanwhile, can produce far finer undulations ...

Desert X 2025 installation view of Sarah Meyohas ... the presence and absence of the rough-hewn forms. By taking the material from one place and adding it to another, he establishes a relationship ...