In this video, we tackle the task of leveling the uneven green with sand. My chipping green is not perfectly level, so we are ...

Pack sand (right on the beach) into a cast of a stool. Then, pump a liquid mixture of Bacillus pasteurii, calcium chloride, and urea into that sand-filled mold.

Turns out there is. All you need is some sand, bacteria, calcium chloride and a decent amount of urea to make it happen. Trimble’s idea isn’t an entirely new.

*Correction (6/11/12): The sentence was edited after posting to remove reference to liquids; at this stage in the activity, only solids —sand and salt— have been mixed. Observations and results ...

Columns of sand with different proportions of sticky grains are formed and allowed to settle (more sticky grains going from (a) to(c)). Columns are better able to keep their shape with more sticky ...