Using the criteria established by the "Energy Act of 2020," the U.S. Geological Survey identified 60 critical mineral ...

James Webb detected heavy elements in gas near Sagittarius A*, with a composition similar to that of nearby stars.

A sliver of iron thinner than a human hair was squeezed to deep-Earth pressures between the tips of diamond anvils, then ...

Scientists have studied a two-century-old coral core from Maui's Olowalu reef, revealing how land use has impacted reef ...

Japan has moved its deep-sea rare earth project from theory to physical recovery, bringing  approximately 50 metric tons of mineral-rich mud to the surface during a 2026 test near  Minamitorishima.

Surveys selected by brightness can give a different impression of the population. Hotter, bluer white dwarfs shine more ...

Glass bottles and glass cups are everywhere in our daily lives. We use them casually and sort them on trash day, but do you ...

The fetal brain is doing far more before birth than scientists once understood. The difficult question is where complex brain activity ends and conscious experience begins.

What if modern science had never been born?　What if the 'science' we take for granted was actually nothing more than a single ...

One day, our sun will collapse into a superdense object about the size of Earth-a white dwarf. While our sun is an orangish-yellow, the resulting white dwarf will be… white obviously, right? Not ...

White dwarfs glow in a rainbow of colors, one recorded for the first time in new research showing how these stars can defy ...

I T TAKES ABOUT a second to say “caesium atoms”. And, for nearly 60 years, caesium atoms have said how long a second lasts.