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A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Turkey’s northwestern province of Balikesir on Sunday, causing about a dozen buildings to collapse, an official said. At least one person was trapped in the debris of a collapsed building. The earthquake,...
In the wake of a wildfire, there's often an assumption that burned landscapes will be more susceptible to landslides. But new research from the University of Oregon suggests it's not always that simple. An analysis of the...

Can critical metals for renewable energy products be found in existing mines?

Ramping up renewable energy products will require a range of critical metals. One of these elements, tellurium, is gaining in popularity for use in...

Earth’s core: Unexpected flow behavior in liquid metals

Some metals are in liquid form, the prime example being mercury. But there are also enormous quantities of liquid metal in the Earth’s core,...

A clean way to extract rare earth metals

Rare earth metals — those 17 chemically similar elements at the bottom of the periodic table — are in almost every piece of technology...

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