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A new study in National Science Review have experimentally uncovered a suprising new state of matter within Earth's inner ...

This fern was already known to be a hyperaccumulator, able to thrive in REE-rich soils in southern China by absorbing the metals. The researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry wanted to ...

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