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‘Dune: Part Two’ — False Messiahs and the Shifting Sands of Power Denis Villeneuve’s masterpiece is a cinematic sci-fi triumph — and a stark cautionary tale.
Though the abstract art movement is thought to have reached its peak sometime in the mid-20th century with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, artists persist in developing new forms of abstraction to ...
A scheme to reverse declines in wildlife-rich dune habitats by getting the sands shifting again has been given a £4 million funding boost.
The sand dunes during these seasons tend to move in north-south direction and vice-versa, depending on the wind direction.
A study of the Martian polar region by an orbiting satellite shows that sand dunes, once thought to be frozen and static, change radically every year.
This is a false-color image of dark sand dunes at high northern latitudes on Mars that are covered seasonally by a layer of condensed carbon dioxide (dry ice), shown in this image. When the sun ...
A sand dune on Mars changes over the course of two seasons. (Image courtesy Science/AAAS). A Texas-sized field of sand dunes around Mars's north pole -- long thought to be a static, unchanging ...
A scheme to reverse declines in wildlife-rich dune habitats by getting the sands shifting again has been given a £4 million funding boost. The project “dynamic dunescapes”, backed by the funding from ...