These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements — and could prove useful in catalysts ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An international research team led by biologists from Heidelberg University as ...

Rare earth elements are used in a wide variety of modern technologies, from wind turbines to phones. While the elements aren't all that rare, they are difficult to extract and purify. A team led by ...

These are the best space opera movies of all time. For the purpose of this list, we'll be sticking to one film per franchise to add some variety. Comedian Mel Brooks is well-known for his genre parody ...

Japan has successfully collected mud containing rare earth elements from a depth of about 5,600 meters in waters off ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

Tokyo proclaims Pacific Ocean mission world’s first attempt to tap rare earths at such a depth.

Japan’s METI and JAMSTEC have successfully retrieved rare earth-rich sediment from 6,000 metres below the Pacific Ocean. This ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and ...

A Japanese research vessel has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the ...

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

Othmar Schmiderer wanted to avoid "fear-mongering or finger-wagging" but sees a "possible colonization of distant planets as ...