4:45 minutes (1.09 MB)
For this week's "Task at Hand," Doug and Jessica give advice on protecting your plants from winter salt and explain how to choose the right materials. They explain the benefits of using burlap or landscape fabric shield and much more!

with my nieces at the beach

Physicists at the University of Chicago are researching a new fluid state essentially created by dropping a marble into loosely packed sand. This produces a jet of sand grains that briefly behaves like a special type of dense fluid. Perhaps the craziest part is you can duplicate the experiment at home. (Read the full story).