The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, from water to weeds
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Earth’s Lost Timeline: Rusty Rocks Reveal Billion-Year-Old Secrets
In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...
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Fluorescent caves could explain how life persists in extraterrestrial environments
Deep below Earth’s surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the ...
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Why Biden and Trump both support this federal mineral mapping project
A U.S. Geological Survey effort to find underground deposits of clean energy metals has gotten bipartisan support.
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Ukraine’s rare earth minerals: How a 2.5bn-year-old rock deposit became central to helping stop Russia’s invasion
But what are these minerals exactly ... exposed crystalline rock formed over 2.5 billion years ago, stretches across much of Ukraine. It represents one of Earth’s oldest and most stable ...
Alien Clues in Strange Martian Stone: Scientists Stunned by Rover Discovery
Pale rocks on the red planet reveal a watery past and suggest the potential for life. Sometimes, scientists have to dig, work ...
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The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, from water to weeds
As the basic building blocks of much of the world’s matter, these elements have accumulated everywhere: in plant life, in the ocean, in our industrial waste, and even in rocks hurtling through ...
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Unburied treasure: Rover researchers find unexpected minerals on Mars that hint at possibility of ancient life
"On Earth, these minerals form where ... science in the College of Science, and several of her and Wiens' students. The team found more than 4,000 of these white rocks and pebbles scattered ...
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Ukraine’s rare earth minerals: How a 2.5bn-year-old rock deposit became central to helping stop Russia’s invasion
This massive, exposed crystalline rock formed over 2.5 billion ... changing’ terms of rare earth deal Trump pushes to control all of Ukraine’s mineral and energy assets in sweeping new demands ...
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Southern Nevada teachers spend part of spring break learning about mining, earth science
Southern Nevada teachers spend part of spring break learning about mining, earth science. Read more from The Nevada ...
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"Mudball meteorite" spent 2 million years avoiding collision – until Earth
One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas ...
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STEM-ology Focuses on Geology for All Ages at UW During April
STEM-ology, a monthly series of themed science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) events for all ages, continues in April at the University of Wyoming, with events including Toddler ...