Earth is clingy when it comes to copper. Nature conspires at scales both large and small -- from the realms of tectonic plates down to molecular bonds -- to keep most of Earth's copper buried dozens ...

A HUNDRED years ago, when electricity was usually generated by the use of frictional or Wimshurst machines and detected by gold leaf electroscopes, it was well known that an electric charge on a ...

Climate change is bearing down on us; temperature records are constantly being made and broken, and severe storms and flooding have been wreaking havoc in many parts of the world. In an attempt to ...

Earth is clingy when it comes to copper. A new Rice University study this week in the journal Science finds that nature conspires at scales both large and small -- from the realms of tectonic plates ...