Who says materials have to be scraped, buffed, and varnished to be beautiful? Recently, we spotted a beautiful storage barn that proves raw materials can make a breathtaking exterior. The building’s ...

Copper and other non-ferrous metals cannot be fully broken down in mines, and residues of the valuable metals remain even after the metallurgical processes that follow. Residues are stored on tailings ...

Is permanent storage the only strategy for dealing with nuclear waste? No, says Prof. Kristina Kvashnina of the Helmholtz-Zentrum-Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). With the aid of new EU funding, she wants ...

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A new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the nation’s electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage ...