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This new USPS stamp will take you back to bedtime
The USPS released its "Goodnight Moon" Forever stamps. The beloved children's book is now featured on a new pane of ...
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The world’s rarest penguins don’t fear the heat. Here's how they learned to embrace it.
“We’re measuring him for a suit,” she joked. (The Galapagos penguin, one of the world's rarest, sees a glimmer of hope.) Fifty-four years ago, when I started this, I thought Galapagos ...
Inside Dubai’s hidden memory museum
The museum in Dubai houses over a tonne of coins — some dating back to 2 BC — from nearly every nation in the world. The ...
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Chinese export limits energizes push for more US rare earths mines, including one in Nebraska
America’s only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump’s tariffs this month by limiting exports of those minerals used for military ...
How a 71-year-old Muslim villager’s “hoarding” of everyday objects won a coveted spot at the V&A Museum in London
Selim Khandakar's vast collection of 12,000 objects finds a home in prestigious museums, challenging colonial structures and narratives.
The Straits Times16d
How China took over the world’s rare earths industry
BEIJING – China shook the world in 2010 when it imposed an embargo on exports of crucial rare earth metals to Japan. Panicked Japanese executives appeared on television to warn that they were ...
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The U.S. has a single rare earths mine. Chinese export limits are energizing a push for more
The trade war between the world’s two biggest economies could lead to a critical shortage of rare earth elements if China maintains its export controls long-term or expands them to seek an ...
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Rare WWI memorial plaque for Irish woman, and how stamps became sign of Irish resistance before Easter Rising
which first appeared on the Sinn Féin “stamps” of 1907. Memorial plaques issued to women are very rare In the same sale, a First World War memorial plaque issued to Ada Elizabeth Young (est ...
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China’s restrictions on rare earths could hurt U.S. health care
China processes almost all the world’s rare earths, a group of 17 metals used in a wide array of products in the defense, health-care and technology sectors. But as part of its retaliation ...