Zapping sand to create rock could help curb coastal erosion
Low voltages generate minerals that bind grains together into an limestone-like aggregate
![Debris from a collapsed house litters a beach in North Carolina. In the distance, a house on stilts still stands at the very edge of the ocean.](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/082124_sp_preventing-coastal-erosion_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
As seas batter fragile coasts, erosion can turn a paradise into disaster. Here, the battered remains of a house that collapsed earlier this month litter the beach in Rodanthe, N.C.
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