Tailings, the waste left after extracting precious and critical minerals, often contain harmful chemicals and heavy metals that can pollute soil, water, and even crops. There are over 1,800 tailings storage facilities around ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2023
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Nearly 6,000 different minerals are known to exist on Earth, but after more than 50 years of investigations, only 161 minerals have been recorded on Mars—a dramatically lower number for a planet that shares much in common ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 7, 2023
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Could blending of crushed rock with arable soil lower global temperatures? Researchers of Mainz University have studied global warming events from 40 and 56 million years ago to find answers. Their research paper has recently ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2023
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Developing technologies that can convert CO2 into synthetic fuels and base chemicals is of key importance for reaching climate goals. The electrochemical reduction of CO2 at copper electrodes using electric power from renewable ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 18, 2023
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Scientists at the Children's Nutrition Research Center of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) helped develop healthier sorghum varieties containing significant concentrations of provitamin A carotenoids while also ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 31, 2023
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Imagine a plastic that is harder than common plastics, non-flammable, and even has self-healing properties. But that is not all—it can be produced at room temperature in water, which is very energy-efficient and does not ...
Polymers
Jul 27, 2023
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High up in the Himalayas, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Niigata University, Japan, have discovered droplets of water trapped in mineral deposits that were likely left behind from an ancient ocean ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2023
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New research into the forces that bring diamonds to the surface from deep in the Earth's mantle could help locate undiscovered diamond deposits, say Macqurie University geologists.
Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2023
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Researchers at Curtin University have established a new framework for dating the Earth's evolution including the formations of continents and mineral deposits.
Earth Sciences
Jul 13, 2023
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When peanuts are dropped into a pint of beer, they initially sink to the bottom before floating up and "dancing" in the glass.
General Physics
Jun 14, 2023
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