Every time you use your phone, open your computer or listen to your favorite music on AirPods, you are relying on critical minerals. These materials are the tiny building blocks powering modern life.

You might think the business of mining is digging up valuable minerals. In fact, it’s almost the opposite. Most of the rock that miners blast, shovel and truck out of the ground is useless waste — ...

The administration’s push to open federal tracts to critical mineral projects is fueling clashes over water, wildlife and Indigenous lands. President Donald Trump is driving a 21st-century gold rush ...

For the first time in 70 years, “the United States opened a rare earth mine,” reports RealClearInvestigation’s James Varney. “Ramaco’s Brook Mine in Ranchester,” Wyo., is “part of a critical effort to ...

In The Alters, there are several different kinds of resources that you will require to make everything you need to survive. In the Prologue, the game introduced you to the three most important ones: ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yuanzhi Tang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Scott McWhorter, Georgia Institute ...