When Dr. Brittany Clayborne’s 13-year-old son Micah came home from school in December 2023, she asked him if he wanted to play football outside. It was one of his favorite hobbies. But Micah said he couldn’t. “He said, ‘My chest hurts,'” Clayborne recalled. “I was like, ‘What do you mean your chest hurts?'” The words were terrifying to Clayborne, who …
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A man in New South Wales (NSW) caught the state’s first known case of Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV), a rabies-like infection that can’t be treated once symptoms appear. It was the fourth human case of the infection ever documented. The man, who was in his 50s and from northern NSW, was in critical condition and being treated at a hospital …
Read More »What two new market moves say about U.S. rare earth minerals Axios The Pentagon is taking a big stake in a rare earth mining company, sending the stock up 60% Business Insider Pentagon to become rare earth mining company’s largest stockholder Washington Technology Australian rare earth stocks soar on MP Materials’ multi-billion US deal Reuters Pentagon to Take Stake in Rare-Earth Company, Challenging China’s …
Read More »CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The developer of what would be the first new coal mine in Wyoming in decades is launching a potentially half-billion-dollar effort to extract rare earth metals from the fossil fuel that are crucial for tech products and military hardware. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon, and Wyoming’s congressional delegation took part in a ribbon-cutting …
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