NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery in the YSES-1 system, 300 light-years away. It revealed ...

The global construction boom has created huge demand for sand – even in cities surrounded by the coarse commodity ... wind and water grind rocks into silica-rich grains, to make glass.

J. plant of the Standand Oil Co. uses it. Essentially, this stuff is colloidal silica possessing immense absorbent qualities. It looks like coarse sand, but has pores so fine no microscope can ...

“Silica sand is less contaminated than beach sand ... For optimal aeration, the United States Golf Association recommends that at least 60 percent of this “root zone mixture” consist of medium to ...