One of the great joys of childhood is making sandcastles on the beach; and oddly enough, part of the fun is also watching a wave wash them away. It’s a little startling to find out, then, that something instinctively understood by children–that damp sand sticks together–was only recently explained scientifically in 1997. Dr. Peter Schaffer, …
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Sandcastle science
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Columns
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July 16, 2002
- 5 mins to read
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