Researchers discovered that massive lava flows and collapsing lava ponds at Axial Seamount reveal how underwater eruptions reshape the seafloor.

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Another year, another disappointing March. There were signs long before the calendar flipped, but despite everything, the ...

Today, the rare earth magnet market itself is worth roughly $20 billion and heading toward $30 billion by 2030. But the products that depend on those magnets -- everything from fighter jets and ...

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Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Everything Is Political, and Slow Factory. How America’s last ...

The pit, dug for local brick production -a gaping wound in the earth, had become a source of livelihood for brick workers. Daily, they excavate the soil, turn it into blocks and spin some currencies ...