More than 10 years ago, the so-called "rare earth crisis" highlighted the fragility of the supply chain of these metals, which are crucial for the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Most of the world's supply of these ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2022
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Spectacular fossil plants preserved within a volcanic ash fall in China have shed light on an evolutionary race 300 million years ago, which was eventually won by the seed-bearing plants that dominate so much of the Earth ...
Evolution
Mar 8, 2021
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A team of archaeologists and paleontologists affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a colleague from Italy, has identified a new species of theropod dinosaur with strange hand features. In their paper ...
A team of paleontologists at the Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, working with a colleague from the State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, both in China, has identified the oldest known fossil record of ...
A tiny rodent trims tall grasses so it can watch the skies for flying predators, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2022
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Other worlds aren't the only difficult terrain personnel will have to traverse in humanity's exploration of the solar system. There are some parts of our own planet that are inhospitable and hard to travel over. Inner Mongolia, ...
Space Exploration
Dec 29, 2020
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Arsenic-laden groundwater used for cooking and drinking could pose a risk to the health of almost 20 million people across China. This is shown by a study carried out by Eawag scientists in collaboration with Chinese colleagues ...
Environment
Aug 22, 2013
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(Phys.org)—A combined team of American and Chinese researchers has found evidence that suggests that parts of Inner Mongolia that were thought to have been desert for a million years, might have actually dried up just over ...
Paleontologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently collected some early Paleogene (Upper Paleocene through Middle Eocene) mesonychid specimens from the ...
Archaeology
Aug 8, 2012
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Around 165 million years ago, a spectacular parasite was at home in the freshwater lakes of present-day Inner Mongolia (China): A fly larva with a thorax formed entirely like a sucking plate. With it, the animal could adhere ...
Archaeology
Jun 24, 2014
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