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The term 'rare earth' dates to an 18th‑century Swedish mine and survives mainly out of habit. In truth, these 17 metals are ...
This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 180 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics ...
According to an April 2025 article in LaGrada, a group of scientists used a supercomputer to "determine that survival on ...
Separating the planet’s rocky crust and the molten outer core, the mantle makes up 70 percent of the Earth’s mass and 84 ...
For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...
For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...
Separating the planet’s rocky crust and the molten outer core, the mantle makes up 70 percent of the Earth’s mass and 84 percent of its volume. But despite its outsized influence on the planet ...
Earth Fest vendors are pictured on April 13. Rainy skies did not stop the Sustainable CORE Fellows, the Tufts University Social Collective and the Tufts Community Union from holding the annual Earth ...
Skora, a professor of art and graphic design at Western Connecticut State University, described his piece, "Roundabout," as reflecting “the dynamic relationship between humanity and the Earth ...
The telescope has taken a wide variety of photos documenting celestial bodies, from Earth’s neighboring planets like Mars to faraway nebulae trapped in space and time, like the Horsehead and ...
A team of researchers has recently revealed new findings about Earth’s ancient crust. They studied 1.6-billion-year-old rocks in northeast Queensland and noticed that water had a far greater role in ...