The partnership between the firms will allow them to jointly ramp up the exploitation of lithium in the Atacama salt flat ...

13:37, Sat, Oct 26, 2024 Updated: 15:35, Sat, Oct 26, 2024 The geoglyphs in this 200 million-year-old desert have baffled scientists who are scratching their heads about where they've come from.

Google Earth offers users a bird eye view of world with footage spanning the globe. From researching your next holiday destination to your spying on your neighbours back garden, the tool proves very ...

The boxes are due to be assembled into one giant mirror approximately 1-1/2 times the size of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. The telescope's primary mirror will measure about 39.3 meters (130 feet), made ...

Albemarle Corp, the world's top lithium producer, has accused a Chilean regulator of "unjust" discrimination for refusing to make public a key report on the impact of mining on the Atacama salt flat, ...

The glass is made in Japan. Although the final product will look toward the future, the first steps call on glassmaking techniques of centuries past. Craftsmen fill large handmade clay pots with one ...

Water sustains life, but where do you harvest it if you live in the driest desert on Earth? Look to the clouds. “Fog catchers” are revolutionizing the way of life in Atacama Desert — an extremely ...

Paleontologists in Chile have announced that they’ve discovered a new species of giant dinosaur. The name of the reptile is a mouthful — it’s called “Arackar licanantay.” The name means "Atacamian ...

In the driest desert on Earth, construction started Wednesday on a telescope larger than anything that exists today. It's called the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). When finished in the early 2020s, ...