Low environmental standards helped China become the world’s low-cost producer of rare earths, but Beijing was also focused on ...

In Ghana's Weta rice belt in the Volta Region, a quiet revolution is taking root--one that promises to redefine how rice is grown in our water-stressed, warming world. Through a pioneering ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment ...

Rare earth metals power modern tech and clean energy, driving global trade shifts and geopolitical tension as new materials ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Materials science might seem very technical, but as a scientific discipline, it has led to many shifts in society over the ...

The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...

Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper ...

One hundred years after the trial, and as we have documented in our scholarly work, the culture war over evolution and ...

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...