Given the increasing importance of rare earths, countries with large reserves are gaining significant economic and political ...

Rare earth minerals have become the backbone of modern technology, fueling everything from smartphones and electric vehicles ...

IN the modern age, it’s hard to imagine that there’s anywhere on Earth that we haven’t fully explored. But there are surprisingly large chunks of Earth that civilisation has yet ...

This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round, but pages are flat, so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years.

For decades environmentalists have warned that ever-rising numbers of people and their impact on the Earth's finite resources ... harder to ignore. In this map-based feature, gauge the scope ...

rare earth minerals are relatively abundant the world over, but not often found in concentrated deposits. This makes extraction and refinement a complex and costly process. The map above ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before – a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...