ZURICH, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank has sold its stake in Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto (RIO.AX), opens new tab, (RIO.L), opens new tab, adding to a series of recent divestments from ...

BTE offers epochless, constant-size decryption shares (as small as 48 bytes) that can help layer-2 rollups to achieve pending transaction privacy. On most modern blockchains, transaction data is ...

The World Bank’s new report “Mineral Resources of Africa” explores the continent’s mineral wealth and its critical role in powering the global clean energy transition. The report highlights Africa’s ...

Canal Basin Park is meant to bring visitors back to the city’s industrial riverfront, where a canal and railroad supported the area’s economic history. (Courtesy Merritt Chase) Strips of earth running ...

A conversation with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction and the hidden cost and obscured history of the capitalist push to monetize the energy transition. Ad Policy Solar panels in the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...

President Bola Tinubu has called on companies in Nigeria’s extractive industry to adopt cleaner and more sustainable practices in line with global energy transition goals. Speaking at the opening of ...

In this epic but sprightly history, journalist and critic Pinkham (Black Square) explores the central role forests have played in the Russian cultural imagination. Noting that Continue reading » True ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Technological University’s Graduate School is still accepting applications for its new suite of extractive technologies microcredentials launching in Fall 2025. The program ...

Making quantum computers fault-tolerant (and scaling effective error correction to enable this) is a key barrier to a new era of quantum supremacy. A new study ...

In May 2011, former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa welcomed around 1,300 local and foreign investors to the industrial hub of San Pedro Sula for an economic conference. The event was supposed ...

Stephen Acabado receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Science Foundation. But behind the spirit’s flash of marketing and growing popularity lies a rarely asked question: ...