KoBold Metals announced a partnership with Stanford University to improve mineral mining efficiency while also receiving investments from major players in the climate space such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures overseen by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
President Joe Biden toured a state-of-the-art coronavirus vaccine plant Friday as extreme winter weather across broad swaths of the U.S. handed his vaccination campaign its first major setback.
Power was restored to more homes and businesses in Texas after a deadly blast of winter this week overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold.
In 1856, a chemistry student named William Henry Perkin accidentally created a strange substance with a rich purple hue. That accident turned out to be the world’s first synthetic dye.
