This article was originally featured on The Conversation. If you want to understand why some sandcastles are tall and have intricate structures while others are nearly shapeless lumps of sand, it ...

Kids love playing make-believe games, and living in a castle is the ultimate fun. Whether it be a princess castle or a king’s majestic home, kids love imagining themselves living in one with their ...

“Is your first name Sand?” asks the boy being introduced to the man building the sand sculpture on Revere Beach. “I wish,” wistfully replies the man sometimes known as Sandcastle Matt and some other ...

B rought to You By is our series about all the stuff that’s become part of the culture and of the economy. Where did they come from and who thought of them? Sandcastles have been around a while. In ...

(Inside Science) -- Beach-goers know that sand castles crumble almost as quickly as they are built, but scientists have long faced the mystery of why similarly-constructed earthen buildings can stand ...

Seeing sand castles being built on the beach is nothing out of the ordinary. Finding a sand sculpture that's the size of an actual three-story castle, now that's another thing altogether. That's ...