Hydrogen from geological formations makes up about 10% of the flammable gases that form the Yanartaş flames near Cirali, ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

China has discovered a rare earth mineral that is capable of helping it achieve energy sufficiency for thousands of years China said it found thorium in large deposits in the Bayan Obo mining complex ...

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APS 2025) Helium-4 is primarily the product of the radioactive decay of uranium and thorium, made right here on ... might be primordial helium trapped in Earth's mantle, captured from the solar nebula ...

It's like upgrading from a gas-guzzling SUV to a Tesla. If China plays its thorium cards right, this discovery could revolutionise the global energy landscape. We're talking about a clean ...

After any ceasefire arrangement between Russia and Ukraine, should the continent return to buying gas from Moscow using a Baltic pipeline with US blessing, as the FT reported over the weekend?

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China has reportedly discovered a massive thorium deposit capable of supplying energy for the next 60,000 years, according to a declassified national geological survey. Meanwhile, according to a ...

Credit: Jeroen Ritsema et al. Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these regions were similar, but groundbreaking research ...

A new study led by researchers at Cardiff University, the University of Oxford, the University of Bristol, and the University of Michigan has revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep ...

For those unaware, thorium is a kind of silver-colored metal that can generate 200 times more energy than uranium, Interesting Engineering notes. And there are many benefits to the energy source ...