Picture a society powered by renewable energy. What likely comes to mind are fields of wind turbines, banks of solar panels, heat pumps humming away on buildings, and electric vehicles plugged into ...

Difficulty adjustments every 2,016 blocks help maintain a consistent 10-minute block time, preventing rapid inflation and network overload. In October 2024, Bitcoin mining difficulty hit a record high ...

Interlune is developing robots to harvest a valuable gas on the lunar surface that could have a big impact on Earth. In the lobby of Interlune, a 3-foot-wide tabletop diorama shows an idyllic, ...

Donald Trump wants minerals, and lots of them. America’s president is interested in Greenland for, among other things, its vast store of minerals and the largest deposits of rare earths outside China.

An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese, nickel, cobalt and other minerals used in electric vehicles, solar panels and more. Meanwhile, ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to whales. The long-term effects of these extractions remain uncertain Amber X.

Mining might not be something you think about daily, but every physical product we use and depend on is dependent on natural resources that come from and are extracting from the Earth. AI is ...

AI is transforming the mining industry and becoming an increasingly important component at various stages of the production process. Ongoing advancements in the AI sector are creating new ...