If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be impossible to leave them behind, since they live on and in our bodies, surfaces and ...

Rare earth elements sit quietly inside smartphones, electric vehicles, and wind turbines, yet they are notoriously difficult ...

Clean energy technologies are colliding with a hard geological limit: the world needs far more copper, lithium, manganese and rare earth elements than conventional mines are currently delivering. At ...

Critical challenges and technology development for colonizing and developing the moon are being performed. This includes getting oxygen, water, and metals like Aluminum from the lunar soil. There is ...

Recycling rare earth metals has just gotten easier. Rare earth metals (REEs), a set of 17 elements -including neodymium, cerium, and yttrium- that are found in the two rows at the bottom of the ...

Boleslav Nemenyonok has received a grant from the Belarusian president. He has been working on transforming used cosmetic ...

NALCO's gallium extraction project, initiated in 2016, remains stalled after a decade, despite its strategic significance.