Dinos and burros and rocks, oh my! The Mines Museum of Earth Science isn’t usually this scary. It transformed into a spooky scene at its annual Spooktacular, hosting more than 1,000 people, including 600 youngsters, most of them decked out in ....

And while flaky, blackish-gray graphite won’t be involved in a lot of marriage proposals, it is key to many types of manufacturing. “From steelmaking to semiconductors to electric vehicle batteries,” said Morgan Bazilian, a professor at the Colorado ....

A study by Ian Lange of the Colorado School of Mines considers the potential—and challenges—for a fledgling industry that might reach a significant scale in the next several decades, driven by the demand for critical metals used in electronics, solar ....

Roel Snieder, W.M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Professional Development Education, wrote this essay about his approach to being a scientist and a teacher.

Chemicals like PFOS, PFOA and PFHxS are "for all intents and purposes correctly labeled as forever chemicals ," said Christopher Higgins, a leading U.S. expert on PFAS and a distinguished professor at the Colorado School of Mines.

“It really just comes down to its economics and if they can do it at scale, and until they do that, it’s hard to know,” said Jordan Lee Calderon, a critical minerals and sustainability researcher at the Colorado School of Mines.

The mining industry has "garnered a bad reputation, and certainly, some of that is understandable," according to "The State of Critical Minerals Report 2023," released by the Colorado School of Mines' Payne Institute for Public Policy on Sept. 26.

Drew Ruana, a professional rock climber and a student at Colorado School of Mines, wrote this opinion piece about the proposed Protecting America’s Rock Climbing Act and climbing provisions of the America’s Outdoor Recreation Act.

“The recent growth of machine learning and AI-like tools is advancing quite rapidly in geophysics,” noted Paul Sava, a professor and department head in geophysics at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo.

Walter G. Copan, vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines, authored this opinion piece on two bills that would strengthen U.S. intellectual property rights and accelerate technological innovation.