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The United States imports nearly 80% of the rare earth elements it uses in the production of critical electronics. That has made securing mining rights and import agreements a hot political topic. NBC News' Zinhle Essamuah explains exactly what rare ...

Maricopa County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada, offer a cautionary tale about what it takes to keep people alive in extreme temperatures.

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi shared the 2025 prize for the "development of metal-organic frameworks," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Wednesday.

Neil Jacobs was assistant secretary for environmental observation at NOAA when Trump displayed a map altered with a black Sharpie to incorrectly show Hurricane Dorian's path.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded honored John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit."

Peripheral immune tolerance is one way the body helps keep the immune system from getting out of whack and attacking your own tissues instead of foreign invaders.

Temperatures across the region are expected to be up to 30 degrees higher than normal on Friday and Saturday.

The coins are part of the $400 million in worth of gold, silver and jewels lost in a 1715 Spanish shipwreck, the treasure hunters claimed.