The sound design of Dune’s films turns the fictional deserts of Arrakis into an immersive sensory reality. Using real desert recordings, inventive layering, and spatial mixing, the teams shaped a ...

At a small number of beaches around the world, dry sand actually makes noise underfoot, caused by friction between silica-rich grains. These “singing sand” beaches exist on every continent except ...

The Dune films remind us of just how beautiful, mysterious, expansive and changeable sand dunes can be. For centuries these wonderful landforms have filled humans with awe – and in some cases fear and ...

The sand is hard at the water’s edge. South of Florence, on the Oregon Coast, you can walk the beach for miles and barely leave an imprint. Dig holes, build castles, turn somersaults, your meager ...

In some places, sand dunes protect shorelines from the onslaught of ocean waves. In other places, the dunes themselves are on the move, and threaten human structures. Host Flora Lichtman talks with ...