From time to time, our Planet Money Podcast profiles people with unusual jobs. David Kestenbaum has this story about a man who realized he was the only person in the world with his job. It was a job ...

One of the fun things about science is it allows people to be prophets without the need to grow a big beard and walk around the desert in a robe. True, Dmitri Mendeleev did have a big beard when he ...

1: All intersections lengths are drill indicated thicknesses; insufficient work has been completed to reliably determine true thicknesses. 2: Analysis of titanium and vanadium converted to titanium ...

Scandium is getting harder to source, and U.S. chip and aerospace supply chains are feeling it right now. Some suppliers have started turning away customers as inventories tighten ahead of a planned ...

The silvery metal scandium can be made into a superconductor without having to be mixed with other substances, and this occurs at higher temperatures than for any other element. The process still ...

In the escalating competition between Washington and Beijing over critical minerals, one obscure element has suddenly taken on outsized strategic importance: scandium. Long overshadowed by lithium and ...

Our Planet Money team has a story about a man who realized at the time that he was the only person in the world with his job. It was a job selling something almost no one wanted. From time to time, ...

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / February 28, 2025 / Troy Minerals Inc. ("Troy" or the "Company") (CSE:TROY)(OTCQB:TROYF)(FSE:VJ3) is pleased to announce that its two-hole maiden drilling program at ...

Our Planet Money team has a story about a man who realized at the time that he was the only person in the world with his job. It was a job selling... Scandium Middleman Is A Rare Guy Selling A Rare ...

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