Tag: gold
Earth’s Gold-Mining Machine
Earth operates an extraordinary natural factory that concentrates gold from barely detectable amounts into rich deposits that humans can mine. How?
Weird Water and Its Role in the Rise of Chemistry
Water has been crucial in the transition from alchemy to the science of chemistry.
Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery
Plate tectonics is important for advanced life in multiple ways and planets with plate tectonics are very rare.
The Story of Metals Points to Nature’s Foresight, Planning, Preparation
A confluence of conditions conspired to bring metals to Earth and make them accessible to humans. But can a Darwinian process take the credit?
How Earth is Designed for Human Technology
Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke.