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Global Desalination Market Poised for $26.8 Billion Surge by 2028
NEW YORK, July 9 — $14.8 billion. That was the size of the global desalination market in 2020.…
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Heliopause: Where Solar Wind Meets Interstellar Space
MANILA, July 9 — For generations, the idea of leaving our solar system felt like the stuff of…
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Mountain Pass Mine: America’s Key to Cutting Rare Earth Imports
MOUNTAIN PASS, Calif., July 9 — The only operating rare earth mine in the United States sits in…
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New Horizons Probe Nears Interstellar Space, Poised to Leave Solar System
LAUREL, Maryland, July 9 — A small spacecraft that has already rewritten textbooks on the outer solar system…
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Iran talks collapse would tighten global oil supply, economists warn
TEHRAN, July 9 — A new assessment from economists tracking global energy markets lays out a stark scenario…
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SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell Drives Operations and Growth
LOS ANGELES, July 9 — Gwynne Shotwell, the President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX, has quietly built…
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The Kuiper Belt: A Treasure Trove of Icy Bodies Beyond Neptune
WASHINGTON, July 9 — The record shows that the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of the solar system…
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Lithium-ion battery’s journey from lab to global market dominance
ISLAMABAD, July 9 — The lithium-ion battery, a technology that began as a laboratory breakthrough and now powers…
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China’s Solar Dominance Poses Major U.S. Energy Supply Challenge
BEIJING, July 9 — For all the noise about reshoring critical industries, the salient point remains that China…
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Alan Stern leads New Horizons mission for APL, SwRI
LAUREL, Maryland, July 9 — The geopolitical calculus of planetary exploration rarely gets the attention it deserves. But…
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New Horizons’ Journey: From Pluto Flyby to Kuiper Belt Exploration
ISLAMABAD, July 9 — A small spacecraft continues to send back whispers from the edge of the solar…
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JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials Leads Industrial Battery Recycling
CARSON CITY, Nevada, July 9 — The technical reality of the electric vehicle revolution is that a lithium-ion…
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Voyager 1 and 2: First to Cross Heliopause in 2012, 2018
PASADENA, July 9 — Nearly five decades after they left Earth, the twin Voyager spacecraft continue to redefine…
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James Litinsky revives America’s only rare earth mine
MOUNTAIN PASS, Calif., July 9 — The man who pulled the Western Hemisphere’s largest rare earth mine out…
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Iran’s Strait of Hormuz seizure rattles global energy markets
MUMBAI, July 9 — For Asian economies that together absorb 80% of the oil moving through the Strait…
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Strait of Hormuz Chokepoint Impacts Global Oil and Stock Prices
TEHRAN, July 9 — A narrow ribbon of water just 21 miles wide at its most slender point…
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New Horizons Set To Become Third Probe To Reach Interstellar Space
LAUREL, Maryland, July 9 — New Horizons, the spacecraft that gave humanity its first close look at Pluto…
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OPEC’s six-decade rise shapes global oil power and prices
VIENNA, July 9 — The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a bloc that has shaped global energy…
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SpaceX’s 2008 breakthrough reshaped spaceflight forever
LOS ANGELES, July 9 — When Elon Musk founded SpaceX, the idea that a private company could rival…
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U.S.-Iran Tensions May Send Oil Prices to $100/Barrel, Experts Warn
WASHINGTON, July 9 — Oil prices are once again in the crosshairs of geopolitics, and the numbers help…
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Voyager 1 and 2: Only Human Objects to Leave Solar System
LOS ANGELES, July 9 — The two most distant human-made objects in the universe are about to fall…
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Oil Drives Global Economy: Gasoline, Plastics, and Beyond
HOUSTON, July 9 — The scene at the refinery along the Houston Ship Channel is one of constant…
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SpaceX counters jamming with software updates and technical fixes
WASHINGTON, July 9 — SpaceX has been engaged in an ongoing technical duel with Russian electronic warfare systems…
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Shale Revolution makes US the world’s top oil producer
ODESSA, Texas, July 9 — On a scrub-blasted patch of West Texas where the wind never seems to…
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