Electric cables in decommissioned nuclear power plants which were previously incinerated can now have their copper recovered ...

A large chunk of the Earth's crust is missing but scientists have now discovered where it is located. The world is constantly throwing puzzling questions at scientists, with new technology like space ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

In a bid to unearth its own nickel, lithium, and more, the U.S. is using AI to help zero in on mineral-rich deposits.

Oregon’s state geologist is pitching a novel idea of using the region’s rocky basalt layer – born of lava that flowed ...

“The moon is round, the sun is round, the Earth is round, it’s our favorite shape,” Len Kretchman said. “Do you have to go to ...

Layers of volcanic rock in Eastern Oregon, the Willamette Valley and the Columbia Basin have created fertile soil for farming ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

That happened two years ago with the world's largest active volcano. About two months before Mauna Loa spewed rivers of ...