Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming ...

A new partnership between Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) Bradshaw Research ...

For centuries, humans have mined materials to build the tools we use every day, from batteries and cell phones to airplanes and refrigerators. While the process of obtaining these important minerals ...

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 ...

Scientists have used biomining fungi to harvest palladium from meteorites on the International Space Station. The approach can be used for harvesting resources from extra-terrestrial surfaces or ...

Chennai: At a time when public resistance brought the waste-to-energy (WtE) project to a halt, Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has moved decisively to revive and expand biomining operations as the ...