Abandoned mine tunnels might ferry geothermal energy from deep underground to help heat homes and offices.

Both are expensive, complex activities that can take decades to pan out.

Does mining asteroids for precious metals make economic sense? And how much is out there anyway? We ask an asteroid expert and an economist to find out

The billionaire-backed asteroid mining venture announced today has deep roots in science fiction books and film.

NASA satellite image shows China's growing presence in rare earths market.

The discovery, using state-of-the-art informatics tools, increases the likelihood that it will be possible to predict much of the fundamental structure and function of the brain without having to measure every aspect of it. That in turn makes the Holy Grail of modeling the brain in silico -- the goal ...

Scientists have discovered four new species of the colorful Insulamon freshwater crab. But various mining projects on the island of Palawan pose a huge threat to these creatures.

The Republican front-runner said he's proud of the idea.

A newly developed method for microscopically extracting, or "mining," information from genomes could represent a significant boost in the search for new therapeutic drugs and improve science's understanding of basic functions such as how cells communicate with one another.

Researchers have paired up medicines and maladies with help from a molecular matchmaker. When the scientists applied an "opposites attract" algorithm to publicly available databases, surprising sparks flew: They found potential compatibilities between numerous existing drugs and diseases for which those drugs had never before been thought to be beneficial.

Birth defects are significantly more common in areas of mountaintop coal mining and are on the rise as the practice becomes more common, according to a new study.

A mountain of waste that grows by a million tons every three years from the sewage plants of Australia’s major cities and towns is the target of an unusual mining venture.Scientists in the CRC for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE) are working on ways to turn ...