If you’ve ever walked across a desert dune and heard a strange sound, a deep rumble, a bass-like hum, or something not unlike a low cello note, you were experiencing one of nature’s most curious ...

This video shows the Singing Dune in Altyn-Emel National Park, Kazakhstan, where a massive ridge of golden sand rises high ...

At a small number of beaches around the world, dry sand actually makes noise underfoot, caused by friction between silica-rich grains. These “singing sand” beaches exist on every continent except ...

I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial photos ...

Last summer, Stephanie McNamara got her first glimpse of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. The park is a monument to sand, where dunes stretch across 30 square miles ...

The famed coastal dunes that inspired the shifting sand landscape of the desert planet Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel “Dune” are also under siege — from climate change and human ...