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Asteroid mining gets sold as a trillion-dollar gold rush, but the economics point the other way: hauling platinum back to Earth would crash its price, so the only prize that adds up is mining water and burning it as fuel in space
16+ hour, 56+ min ago (288+ words) The trillion-dollar asteroid fortune collapses the moment you do the math on bringing platinum home....
One country holds an estimated twenty-four trillion dollars in mineral wealth beneath its soil — cobalt and copper, the very metals that power the phones and electric cars of the modern world — and it remains among the five poorest nations on Earth
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (510+ words) A nation blessed with trillions in minerals essential to the modern world, yet condemned to poverty—a paradox that reveals how resource wealth can become a curse rather than a path to prosperity. By Daniel Moran · Editorial process Published July…...
Humanity consumes roughly 50 billion tonnes of sand and gravel every year—more than any resource except water. Yet most wind-blown desert sand is too fine and rounded to form the main aggregate in strong concrete, forcing even desert cities such as Dubai to rely on carefully processed, quarried, marine or imported material for construction.
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (975+ words) The world's most abundant building material is running scarce in the places that need it most....
A Chinese HPHT press can grow a one-carat diamond chemically identical to a mined stone in about two weeks — and it collapsed a price the cartel defended for 137 years
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (253+ words) Inside a Chinese cubic press, graphite is squeezed at 50,000 atmospheres and 1,500 degrees Celsius for two weeks, producing a one-carat diamond chemically identical to a mined stone — and collapsing a price the De Beers cartel had defended since 1888....
Dennis Hope has been selling acres of the moon for about $20 each since 1980, reportedly moving over 2.5 million parcels — every deed voided by a treaty he claims says nothing about private citizens
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (874+ words) Dennis Hope walked into a county clerk's office in 1980 and filed a claim of ownership over the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Io, and every other solid body in the solar system except Earth. Published June 19, 2026 The loophole he believes he…...
Abandoned coal mines may be releasing hidden carbon into the air, but researchers think the same drainage could also point toward a cheaper kind of climate fix
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (698+ words) Research from West Virginia University finds that abandoned coal mines leak significant CO2 through water drainage, but the same chemistry, contained underground and accelerated by microbes, points to one of the cheapest passive carbon-capture mechanisms ever documented....
Lithium trace in upper air linked to Falcon 9 rocket breakup
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (633+ words) New York (SDX) Feb 23, 2026 - A plume of lithium pollution detected in the upper atmosphere in February 2025 has now been directly linked to the uncontrolled re-entry of a Falcon 9 rocket stage. Researchers report that this even Lithium trace in upper air…...
Sentinel 1 maps reveal flexible crust beneath Tibetan Plateau
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (879+ words) Space Daily Sentinel 1 maps reveal flexible crust beneath Tibetan Plateau The study, published in the journal Science, combines one of the most extensive geodetic datasets assembled for a continental collision zone with detailed modelling to track how the Tibetan Plateau…...
New NASA Sensor Goes Hunting for Critical Minerals
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (487+ words) But that's just one of many tasks that are on the horizon for AVIRIS-5, short for Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-5, which has a lot in common with sensors used to explore other planets. About the size of a microwave…...