An effort to change North Dakota's mining laws is creating fault lines between the coal industry and landowners.

Beginning in March, all Tufts students and faculty gained free access to every Harvard museum through a program offered by ...

Ukraine’s minerals have become central to global geopolitics, with the US president, Donald Trump, seeking a deal with ...

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas ...

On the coast of Newfoundland, waste from a shuttered asbestos mine has been a troubling source of contamination for decades.

Pale rocks on the red planet reveal a watery past and suggest the potential for life. Sometimes, scientists have to dig, work ...

It takes lithium and cobalt to build the batteries that power electric vehicles and e-bikes, nickel and rare earth elements ...

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 ...

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Quasicrystals have structural properties intermediate between crystalline and amorphous materials. They can be synthesized in the lab but, as Luca Bindi explains, they may also be present in ...

But Curiosity wasn't the only one with a geological mystery. At the same time, roughly 2,300 miles away on the other side of ...