Posts tagged: mining
Asteroid Mining No Crazier Than Deep-Sea Drilling, Advocates Say
Both are expensive, complex activities that can take decades to pan out.
Why Asteroid Mining Makes Huge Dollars and Sense
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
Asteroid Mining in Fiction, Past and Present
The billionaire-backed asteroid mining venture announced today has deep roots in science fiction books and film.
Satellite Image Reveals Beauty & Beast of Rare Earth Mining
NASA satellite image shows China's growing presence in rare earths market.
Data mining opens the door to predictive neuroscience
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 ...
Colourful river crabs: Newly discovered and already threatened by mining project
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.
Newt Gingrich Reaffirms Support for Moon Mining in Presidential Debate
The Republican front-runner said he's proud of the idea.
New ‘genome mining’ technique streamlines discovery from nature
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.
Scientists find new uses for existing drugs by mining gene-activity data banks
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.
Large numbers of birth defects seen near mountaintop mining operations
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.
Mining Our Manure Mountains
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 ...