ScienceNow: Marco Polo heard them in the Gobi Desert, Charles Darwin in Chile, and physicists have been trying to explain them for 100 years. But booming sand dunes have remained mysterious. Now, a combined acoustic and seismological study of California dunes points to a natural internal structure that amplifies the sound of sliding sand at select frequencies.
For the UNESCO section chief, “striking a balance between global coherence and respect for national ownership and cultural diversity is both essential and complex.”
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