Magnified Sand is Robert Maronpot's ongoing microscopic photography project. He photographs individual sand grains up close, ...

Designer Marcelo Coelho and artist Vik Muniz have teamed up to etch microscopic castles onto single grains of sand in a painstaking art project -- more than four years in the making -- called ...

Scanning electron microscopy reveals the shape and texture of a quartz sand grain from the Mississippi River. The pictured sand grain is about 200 micrometers in length. (Image credit: Michael Hasson) ...