Saudi Arabia wants to be the Saudi Arabia of minerals

The government is also training a cadre of geoscientists and engineers. Such professionals are in short supply not just in Saudi Arabia but everywhere. No amount of money can get you all the people you need today, says John Bradford of the Colorado ....
January 11, 2024

How do you build a tunnel complex like the one in Gaza

How is it possible to create this level of tunneling without being detected? And what does it take to create a tunnel? Mike Mooney, from the Colorado School of Mines speaks with host Carol Hills.
January 10, 2024

The US shale magnate trying to sell oil and gas jobs to Generation Z

“[Students have] been told for a very long time that oil and gas is going away and they’re concerned about having long-term careers,” said Jennifer Miskimins, head of petroleum engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.
January 7, 2024

Bezos Eyes SpaceX Rival as Critical New Rocket Is Finally Ready

ULA was formed by Boeing and Lockheed in 2006. The pioneering venture had “a virtual monopoly on U.S. government launches” in those early years, said George Sowers, the company’s former chief scientist.
January 4, 2024

Antarctic Octopus Holds Secrets of Prehistoric Ice Loss in Its Genome

“This is really the first biologic evidence that’s being used for past collapse, and I think that that is the really special and surprising thing about this paper,” says Ryan Venturelli, a paleoglaciologist at the Colorado School of Mines, who was ....
December 21, 2023

A Neglected Aspect of Good Teaching

Mines' Roel Snieder and Cortney Holles co-wrote this opinion piece with the Teaching With Heart project team about why college instructors should consider not just pedagogy but also their mindset in the classroom.
December 20, 2023

How to take ‘forever’ out of forever chemicals

“There are new ones being put on the market each year,” says Timothy Strathmann, a civil and environmental engineer at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. It can also be difficult to measure some of these molecules, especially at low ....
December 14, 2023

China Would Benefit from Proposed IP Giveaway

Walter G. Copan, PhD, vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines, wrote this op-ed about the proposed intellectual property waiver for Covid-19 therapeutics and diagnostics.
December 14, 2023

What does the groundbreaking COP28 agreement mean for the US?

“It’s not like it’s some kind of global mandate or something that all of a sudden is going to restructure anything,” said Morgan Bazilian, who previously worked as a European Union negotiator during climate talks. “That said, it probably plays well ....
December 13, 2023

COP28: 5 big takeaways on a historic climate agreement

Morgan Bazilian, who attended the conference as part of the Irish delegation, told The Hill he doesn’t think countries will “make large investment or policy or regulatory decisions because of that language” calling for a transition away from fossil ....
December 13, 2023