The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on the earth’s surface, with one of the world’s ...

Rare earth elements sustain the Information Age, and securing a supply of these metals has become a matter of national and ...

The mineral was first discovered by German mineralogist August Breithaupt in 1821, in a weathered brown coal deposit in the ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

The dogged search for a bird that many people figured had gone extinct included torrential rains, washed-out bridges, swine ...