Mining waste rock from historic mines or even treated sewage to find useful metals and minerals could be a sustainable way to meet demand for these finite resources.
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We may have to rewrite physics textbooks after a material that can act both like a conductor and an insulator simultaneously has been discovered.
These laboratory-made metals have unusual properties that consumer electronics manufacturers love. New research used high-energy X-rays to figure out why.
Metals are generally abundant throughout the Earth’s crust, but not always at the right cost in the right place at the right time.
A few centuries ago, there were just a few widely used materials: wood, brick, iron, copper, gold and silver. Today’s material diversity is astounding. A chip in your smartphone, for instance, contains…
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