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The paper D. J. Hornbaker, R. Albert, I. Albert, A.-L. Barabási and P. Schiffer, Why sand castles stand: an experimental study of wet granular media, [ Nature 387 , 765 (1997)] was featured on the cover of the journal Nature (issue of June 19, 1997) and on the cover of Science News (issue of Sept. 20, 1997).

The findings of the paper were discussed in a number of publications including:

  • the front page of The Times (London), June 17, 1997, "Physicists find grain of truth in child's play";
  • The Washington Post, June 30, 1997, page A02, "Chemistry: A Precise Recipe for Clumping" (article by John Schwartz);
  • eXnews WEB magazine, June 18, 1997 "What keeps sandcastles standing? ";
  • Academic Press Daily inScight , June 18, 1997, "Making Wet Sand Stick ";
  • The Why Files , "Castles in The Sand " (article by David Tenenbaum);
  • INSIDE R\&D: "The weekly report on technical innovation " 26 , 1, June 25, 1997, "Sandcastle Physics Holds Wet Grains Together ";
  • The Dallas Morning News, Monday, June 23, 1997, "Study probes watery mystery of creating castles in the sand " (article by J. Chuang);
  • The Sunday Star-Ledger (New Jersey) , Sunday, June 22, 1997, page 25-27, "And scientists study why wet sand clumps " (article by K. Chang);
  • Die Zeite (Germany) , June 27 1997, pg. 19, "Auf Sand gebaut ";
  • The Christian Science Monitor , Tuesday, July 8, 1997, pg. 16, "The Science of Sand Sculpture ";
  • South Bend Tribune , July 20, 1997, Pg. C1-C2, "What keeps sand castles up? " (by W. Falda);
  • Focus (Italy) , Vol. 59 , pg. 14-16, September 1997, "La Sabbia Migliore? Deve essere bagnata fradicia, a granelli piccoli e spigolosi ";
  • Magyar Hirlap (Hungary) , July 31, 1997, pg. 15, "Építsunk homokvárat!: Magyar kutató a nagyvilágban " (article by M. Strehó);
  • Science \& Vie Junior (France) No. 95 , August, 1997, pg. 30, "La vie de Chateau " (article by O. Fevre);
  • Sonntags Zeitung, Zurich 20 July, 1997, pg. 57, "Physikstunde mit Schufeli und Chesseli " (article by C. Schrader);
  • Science News Vol. 152, No. 12, 20 September 1997, pg. 186-187, "Dry Sand, Wet Sand: Digging into the physics of sandpiles and sandcastles " (by I. Peterson).

Furthermore, the results of the paper were discussed in a number of radio programs, including

  • BBC (June 19, 1997),
  • ABC, Australia (June 19, 1997),
  • United Press International (broadcasting over 200 stations in US),
  • WWAQ, Chicago (July 15, 1997),
  • Canadian Discovery Channel (June 19, 1997).

 

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