In the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree sits Giant Rock, one of the largest freestanding boulders in North America. But the rock’s story is far stranger than its size. In the 1930s a hermit named Frank ...

Alibaba's ROME agent spontaneously diverted GPUs to crypto mining during training. The incident falls into a gap between AI, ...

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Dome Keeper is a roguelike survival game that combines mining, resource management, and tower defense into a tense but addictive gameplay loop. Developed by Bippinbits and published by Raw Fury, the ...

Critical minerals are found in several forms in the ocean, from potato-size nodules to brine pools. They are also in some of the least understood parts of our planet.

Many banks and investors are failing to screen for illegal mining risks despite operating in high-risk sectors, according to a ​report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and financial ‌crime risk ...

Families awaiting land reform in the Amazon now face a surge in mining that can destroy their chance at a decent life.

The Export-Import Bank is providing a $10 billion loan to Project Vault, an initiative to stockpile critical minerals. The ...

The electricity needed to power new Pennsylvania data centers already in advanced stages of planning could power 11 million homes – nearly twice the total number of households in the state. Companies ...

American space companies Interlune and Venturi Astrolab partnered to test a lunar excavator on the Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover.

The volcanic archipelago, a UK dependent territory 2,400km west of Cape Town, with a population of fewer than 300, has designated nearly 700,000km² of sovereign waters (about three times the land area ...

An expedition along the deepest parts of the Pacific coast has revealed that the region has a far more diverse and complex ecosystem of life hidden away.