Josh Cotts is a Senior Contributor at Game Rant. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Arizona State University in 2019 with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Media Studies and has been commended since ...

Okay, Dune: Awakening. Your Sandworms might actually be dangerous. In my preview of Funcom’s upcoming survival MMO back in January, I mentioned I didn’t really feel threatened by the Shai Hulud during ...

Joshua grew up in poverty, deep in the Middle of Nowhere, Alabama. Gaming was a rarely afforded escape from reality that persisted throughout his life, something that saw him through good times and ...

Strange, sinuous gullies etched into the dunes of Mars are finally giving up their secrets. These gouges, new experiments reveal, are carved by the explosive sublimation of dry ice, burrowing down the ...

Stumbling around the desert world of Arrakis as I emerged from the wreckage of my crashed ship, I instantly felt drawn into the world of Frank Herbert’s Dune with those first steps. This was in large ...

A new technique estimates forces on individual sand grains, offering scientists a novel way to study how Martian winds shaped the Red Planet. An innovative technique for measuring the force acting on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last summer, Stephanie McNamara got her first glimpse of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. The park is a monument to sand, where dunes stretch across 30 square miles ...

Dune is by far one of the most influential science fiction novels, with a legacy now reaching back over six decades that has found its way into the film, television, and video game media. Developer ...