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 ...

One of the problems with living in a fundamentally interesting, chaotic and wonderful universe, is that the closer you look the more amazing everything is. And yes, that's all very well and good, but ...

Macro photographer Harold Taylor has created a series of photographs showing what sand looks like under a microscope. The photos, which feature sand from seven different beaches in the Indian Ocean, ...

is a video producer, story editor, and reporter with over 10 years of experience crafting news and documentary video. Will joined The Verge in 2017. The world is running surprisingly low on sand.