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7 Dec 2022
They are in your smartphone, electric vehicles and used widely in renewable energy technology. But what exactly are ‘rare earth’ elements and just how rare are...
29 Nov 2022
Almost all volcanic rocks come from the Earth's upper mantle (or lava). Volcanism, on the other hand, can have many different chemical and physical...
3 Feb 2022
Giant mountain ranges rivalling the Himalayas supercharged the evolution of early life on earth, Australian National University researchers say.
25 May 2015
Christian is studying the interactions between volcanic gasses, glasses and melts and looking at volcanic processes that happened on the moon billions of years...
22 Oct 2014
RSES PhD student, Mike Jollands, summarised his 3-year research project in just 3 minutes at the 2014 ANU final of the 3MT competition.
17 Oct 2014
Scientists have found evidence for a huge mountain range that sustained an explosion of life on Earth 600 million years ago.