Rare variants are alternative forms of a gene that are present with a minor allele frequency (MAF) of less than 1%. The genetic variants present in humans often reflect the geographical origins of ...

China discovers 4.96 million tonnes of rare earth elements, which are crucial to tech development, in one of its poorest regions.

6. Rose & Oak (2013, UK). Being sold for up £15, but most will be sold for £3. 7. Flax & Shamrock (2014, Northern Ireland).Coins can fetch up to £34 on eBay- more than 30 times their face value ...

Those conditions, I reasoned, were rare. How people think about rare events—especially unwelcome ones such as traumatic medical episodes or distressing diagnoses—seems to vary considerably ...

China is set to further safeguard its reserves of rare earth elements by about 5 million tonnes amid increasing international competition, especially with the United States, following a discovery ...

An analysis of around a dozen teenagers who lived during the Paleolithic reveals that they hit puberty around the same time modern teens do. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

We found that some rare magma types are surprisingly efficient at concentrating rare earth elements. This is a group of metals with crucial applications in several high-tech industries ...

Brits have been advised to search their wallets and coin jars for a rare misprinted coin that could be worth £1,000. According to coin expert, the £2 in question is estimated to sell for between ...

A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals, according to new ...

All three occurring simultaneously are “quite rare,” Teresa Monsue, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told NPR. Here’s what to know about the celestial trifecta and ...

A partial lunar eclipse of a supermoon was visible across the UK and other parts of the world in the early hours of Tuesday morning. A supermoon occurs when a full moon is at its closest point to ...