As for the dunes which inspired the book, well, today they're disappearing. For NHPR's podcast, Outside/In, Justine Paradis follows in Frank Herbert's footsteps to meet the people trying to save ...

Credit: Cleo8it/CC BY-SA 4.0 The Lady of the Dunes was found naked and lying face down under long grass on that fateful summer day. The girl who found her initially thought it was a dead deer.

Ruth Marie Terry was identified as the “Lady of the Dunes” last fall. FBI Muldavin was the last person to see Terry alive — and had also been a suspect in the 1960 murders of another wife ...

It’s a steep climb up the sand dunes at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, but there’s an even steeper price to pay for those who get stuck. Visitors who can’t quite make it back up the ...

“I got fascinated by sand dunes,” Herbert said in a 1969 interview. “Sand dunes are like waves in a large body of water…and the people treating them as fluid learn to control them.” ...

Indiana Dunes National Park, a 15,000-acre area in northwestern Indiana, along the shore of Lake Michigan, is the country’s newsest and 61st – national park. It’s one of 418 units in the US ...

HiRise, which is mounted on the MRO spacecraft, has been orbiting and surveying sand dunes on Mars since 2006 to help scientists understand how they move and how the weather patterns shape them ...

Sand dunes are rarely isolated. They form in large groups known as dune fields, whispering in the desert wind or flowing with the water on a seabed. Now researchers have discovered that dunes ...

Michigan has the most freshwater dunes on the planet - more than 300,000 acres of them. But how exactly did they form, and why do they look different on one end of our state when compared to the ...