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Germany’s public broadcaster Deutsche Welle joins forces with OZY to pique the curiosity of globally minded readers. Tanzania’s president John Magufuli does not need any more opponents than he already has. Since taking office, he has contended with critical journalists, lazy officials and the European Union. But the temperamental president, nicknamed “bulldozer” by some of […]
Published time: 24 Oct, 2017 13:47 Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to create laws governing the status of bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, mining, ICOs, as well as defining everything that relates to digital money by July 2018, according to the Kremlin. Read more The miners of bitcoin, ethereum, and other virtual currencies will […]
Mansi Kasliwal is not one to sit still. She sleeps little. Those who know her describe her as “hyperactive” and filled with “tremendous energy.” Now, the Caltech astronomer is putting her vim and vigor to the test by chasing equally dynamic astrophysical transients — ephemeral explosions a million or billion times brighter than the sun. […]
Somewhere in western Australia, a man records his trek as he passes rotting wood and moves deeper into a dark tunnel of an abandoned gold mine. An eerie sound spooks some viewers: Is that wind — or whispering voices? While the Blair Witch–like handiwork runs only about a minute long, the video has been shared […]
Luxembourg’s parliament has voted in favor of passing an asteroid mining law that give companies ownership of what they extract from the celestial bodies. The European country has been working on the bill since 2016 and originally intended to pass it earlier this year. It took a bit more time to iron things out, but […]
Efrain Oliveros wants to show what he keeps tucked deep in his wallet for good luck as he motors around the hills of Buenos Aires, a gold-mining town in the Cauca Department of western Colombia. He carefully unwraps a baggy to reveal a tiny flake of green gold mined with a simple process — scooping […]
A newly-discovered seam of gold on New Zealand’s North Island has sparked a bitter stand-off between a mining company and environmental activists. Locals are concerned about the impact the mining will have on their “sacred” mountain. New Talisman Gold Mines announced that it had discovered the 8,500kg (18,739 lbs) seam at its Dubbo site in […]
mining-technology.com South Africa’s chamber of mines officially filed suit this week to block the country’s challenging new mining charter. But elsewhere in the world, some of the biggest investors in natural resources are ramping up their financial commitments — to a new target region for mining and energy deals. Latin America. Specifically, Brazil. Where government […]
Enlarge / The orbits of stars and gas around the Milky Way’s black hole. (credit: M. Schartmann and L. Calcada/ European Southern Observatory and Max-Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik.) Testing general relativity is a fraught business. The theory has proven to be so robust that anyone who thinks it’s wrong gets slapped around by reality in […]
A company with a mining operation in Alaska has reached a settlement with the EPA, reversing restrictions implemented under former President Barack Obama that declared the mines would render an “unacceptable adverse effect” on the area. On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that they settled a case with the Pebble Limited Partnership relating […]
