3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (529+ words) Sixty-six million years later, a dinosaur’s fossilized poop is rewriting evolutionary history. It is rare for paleontology to find feathers at all. Finding them inside the belly of a beast is a miracle of preservation. An apex predator ate a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (504+ words) China’s Chating deposit could become a major copper-gold production base. East China could gain a major local source of copper and gold after an exploration campaign mapped a large ore body at the Chating deposit in Xuancheng, Anhui Province. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (477+ words) C. praecursor spent its life straddling two worlds. Insects are one of the most species-rich groups on Earth. A new study on a 324-million-year-old fossil suggests that they did not make a sudden jump from water to land, but transitioned gradually…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (472+ words) Quantum gravity sensing could help map underground mineral deposits before costly drilling begins in a 2027 Colorado test. Neutral-atom quantum computing firm Infleqtion plans to test a quantum sensing system in Colorado in 2027 that could help locate critical mineral deposits underground…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (889+ words) Ten minerals that underpin the world’s most important emerging technologies. The world’s most advanced machines depend on materials most people rarely hear about. A pinch of gallium can affect a radar system, a tantalum capacitor can determine whether a satellite…...