The materials science graduate program seeks to provide solutions for several different fields, including energy, medicine, clothing, and equipment production. Good to Know Chemistry and Biochemistry ...

The Earth Sciences contribute to answers on a wide range of societal and economic questions in areas such as: the natural means of existence (water, raw materials, the energy transition), the ...

Core physics This apple tree at Woolsthorpe Manor is believed to have been the inspiration for Isaac Newton. (Courtesy: Bs0u10e01/CC BY-SA 4.0) A bright green Flower of Kent apple has now been picked ...

Eugene Gholz analyzes the economic and security consequences of China's central position in the global rare-earths market. He discusses the evolution of the rare-earths market, which is critical ...

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From India to South Africa, our latest lookbook collects living rooms that showcase the diversity in colour and texture of rammed-earth walls. Rammed earth is a building method that is constructed ...

There’s just one problem—such a device would defy the laws of physics. This limitation has ... says that the drive can achieve a thrust to counteract Earth’s gravity, such a claim still ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a city ...

There could be billions more people living on Earth than currently thought, according to a new study which claims rural figures worldwide could be vastly underestimated. Currently, the UN ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

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As we shared earlier this month via a series of SXSW 2025 shorts for FX’s upcoming "Alien: Earth" series landing on Hulu this summer, the show's sci-fi design aesthetics and sonic cues will be ...