After the Punjab and Haryana high court had in March directed the Sahara Mall management to restore power and water supply of Mudpot restaurant, the mall management on Tuesday a filed contempt ...

Microbiologists have shown that the rare earth metal Cerium is essential for the methane-oxidizing bacteria, which they discovered in 2007 in an Italian hot, acid volcanic mudpot. It is the first time ...

Sahara Mall, which houses five pubs, is already making efforts to curb the menace created by the pub owners and other disreputable elements and has recently terminated the lease contracts of three ...

Ten years ago, in a steaming volcanic mudpot in Italy, microbiologists discovered a bizarre bacterium—the first known organism that couldn’t live without lanthanides. To help it feed on methane, ...

A mountain bison’s tracks encircling a mudpot’s margins suggest an approach on foot might be safe. If a shaggy 2-ton animal hasn’t plunged through into a hot and bubbling cauldron then the ...

In reality, the 17 metals that belong to the group of rare earths are not rare at all. The Earth’s crust contains larger quantities of rare earths than of gold or platinum, for example. The problem is ...

Rare earth elements (REEs) are an indispensable component of the digital technologies that are now an integral part of our everyday life. Yet their biological role has been discovered only recently. A ...