Close your eyes, and picture a drill rig sitting on a mesa in New Mexico, grinding down through granite that hasn't seen daylight in a billion years. The year is 1974. We’ve been entrenched in...
The story of strategic minerals is a long, deep trip into history. At any time or any place, chances are you’ll find a war over critical resources...
There’s a good chance that you’ve never heard of a Navy admiral named Hyman Rickover About 70 years ago, he ran the tightest program the U.S. military had ever seen up to that point...
Eighty feet beneath Liberty Street, resting on the bedrock of Manhattan Island, there's a room with a hundred and twenty-two compartments in it. Every one of them is numbered rather than named. Not...
This year marks the sixth year since the U.S. Space Force was established, and it still has fewer people in uniform than the New York City Police Department. Yet, last month they asked Congress for...
Are tariffs the answer? They certainly weren’t 94 years ago when Washington slapped a $0.04 tariff on every single pound of imported copper. Six months later, copper was selling for a shade under...
When a young researcher at Oxford named Dorothy Hodgkin was handed a small sample of crystalline insulin more than 90 years ago, she had a burning desire to know its shape...
We often get caught up in resource dominance today, whether it’s China’s unerring control over rare earths or the fact that six out of every 10 barrels of oil pumped out of the ground in the...
Last week, President Trump thought he announced a bombshell when he touted that America had secured majority control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan reserves...
In 1946, President Harry Truman quietly offered Denmark $100 million in gold for the entire island of Greenland. For a little perspective, that’s roughly $1.7 billion in today's dollars...
In 1990, the U.S. government committed roughly $3 billion and 13 years to a single audacious goal. For the first time in history, we were going to sequence the entire human genome.
During the California Gold Rush, miners ran headfirst into a problem nobody had solved yet. What you may not know is that trading raw gold dust or nuggets was a lot harder than you’d think.
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