Nanoparticles can help address a dependency on platinum — a rare and expensive material — to generate clean power.
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Proponents of mining in space often point to the potential benefits for Earth and its people. But this research casts doubt on many of them.
Why did Earth’s climate rapidly cool 12,800 years ago? Evidence is mounting that a comet or asteroid collision is to blame, with new support coming from the bottom of a South Carolina lake.
Until the recent observation of merging neutron stars, how the heaviest elements come to be was a mystery. But their fingerprints are all over this cosmic collision.
Problems occur when a country falls in love with gold, and silver might be about to get a boost from proposed solutions.
Two musicals set in working class mining communities – one in the UK and the other in South Africa – have diametrically opposed messages: one of hope; the other, despair.
The much-awaited report into the Marikana Massacre of 2012 is finally out. A new book tells how the miners’ struggles went on to influence labour relations across industries in South Africa.
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