Sand looks very different through a high-powered microscope. Photographer, biomedical researcher, and inventor Gary Greenberg started taking photos of sand grains with his own light microscope more ...

Next time you find yourself walking along a beach, stop for a second and shift your focus from the obvious beauty of the ocean to what’s underneath your feet. Sure, it probably looks like bunch of ...

Designer Marcelo Coelho and artist Vik Muniz have teamed up to etch microscopic castles onto single grains of sand in a painstaking art project -- more than four years in the making -- called ...