For most of human history, the night sky has been a shared inheritance, a source of wonder. Now, more than a billion children ...

Direct detection of lithium from a SpaceX rocket reentry offers new evidence that metal pollution from space debris could ...

Buried within the rocks of Mountain Pass are rare-earth elements—a group of metals that play a vital role in nearly every twenty-first-century technology. They help make the high-strength magnets that ...

Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...

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For more than a decade, China has treated rare earths as instruments of strategic influence. That leverage, however, may now ...

But tech companies like Google and Microsoft are working overtime to promote their products as a solution to Earth's climate woes. While promising tools are indeed emerging, a scathing new report ...

How ancient gene transfers, genomes, and pollination shaped moths and butterflies - and why their sudden decline is raising ...

While the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) provided a framework for ocean governance, the BBNJ ...