3+ hour, 48+ min ago  (772+ words) Archaeologists have now shown that African port towns traded across the Indian Ocean between 1000 and 1500 AD, linking inland producers to markets in India and beyond. When new buildings, workshops, and trade goods later vanish from many regions, the silence marks…...

4+ day, 1+ min ago  (783+ words) Miners in China reported a major gold discovery. The volume of the deposit, if confirmed, would be the largest ever recorded on Earth. The conservative estimate given thus far is 1,100 short tons (about 998 metric tons), valued at approximately $83 billion. The…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (791+ words) Seed-sized crustacean fossils have revealed that seafloor species crossed the North Pacific five million years ago along active cold-water routes. That discovery reframes how ocean circulation linked Asia and North America during a warmer phase of Earth's climate. The evidence…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (873+ words) Demand for lithium is now pushing industrial activity toward one of the planet's most recognizable salt flats, a place long valued for its beauty and isolation." New evidence shows that extracting this metal can quietly amplify toxic risks, with consequences…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago  (873+ words) Demand for lithium is now pushing industrial activity toward one of the planet's most recognizable salt flats, a place long valued for its beauty and isolation." New evidence shows that extracting this metal can quietly amplify toxic risks, with consequences…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (839+ words) Kazakhstan holds one of the world's larger copper endowments at a moment when global supply chains are tightening and buyers are rethinking where to source critical minerals, metals, and other materials." New analysis suggests that what the country does next,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (845+ words) Scientists say they have identified the largest iron ore deposit ever recorded, pointing to an area in Western Australia that contains a staggering amount of metal worth trillions. They have tested samples, analyzed isotopes, and drawn conclusions that may reshape…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (880+ words) Helium-3 is usually talked about as a Moon resource " something future astronauts might mine from lunar dust to power fusion reactors or cool quantum machines. Its discovery beneath forests and wetlands in northern Minnesota has surprised many scientists. At the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (839+ words) Fleet Space says its satellite AI expanded Quebec's Cisco lithium project into a target of 329 million metric tons of ore. That estimate equals a total of 360 million tons and supports a system that can propose drill sites within 48 hours. The…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (980+ words) Beneath the dry hills of southern Xinjiang, geologists have identified a new source of intensely dark black jade called nephrite. The Margou deposit sits along a jade belt about 800 miles (1300 kilometers) long, and its black nephrite blocks look like lacquer....