The Middle East has oil, China has rare earths.” With those lines, Deng Xiaoping authored a new age of geopolitical supremacy one measured not in terms of barrels of crude, but in the metallic ...

NASA’s EMIT sensor on the International Space Station was able to track water contaminants off the San Diego coast.

Ancient carbon thought to be safely stored underground for millennia is unexpectedly resurfacing literally. A sweeping ...

Here's how it works: An enhanced geothermal system, or EGS, injects water deep underground to be heated by the natural geothermal heat of the Earth. Then, it returns to the surface as hot water or ...

Humans are remarkably sensitive to the smell of geosmin, in particular. In water, it can be detected at concentrations as low ...