A team from the Colorado School of Mines, in Golden, will develop tools and methods to allow robotic construction of mining roads, landing pads and living quarters -- which may use minerals from the lunar rocks.

Dr. Steven Enders, a professor of mining engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, told Newsweek that the mine's Manitoba location and abundance of hydropower is well-suited for its sustainability goals.

Chris Dreyer, the team’s principal investigator, said researchers will build an autonomous robotic site preparation system that can clear, level and compact an area of lunar surface for construction.

“They seem to recognize that this is a war of images as much as a ground war,” said Kenneth Osgood, a professor of history and an expert on propaganda and intelligence at the Colorado School of Mines. “Because without support, as a military reality ....

But mineral security has not been “at the top-tier level” in the Biden administration “and I don’t think it will be,” said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. The announcement last week ....

"The Ukrainian crisis is not just about Ukraine,” said Colorado School of Mines, History and Foreign Policy Professor, Kenneth Osgood, “It's also about NATO allies."

Let’s get perspective from Elizabeth Van Wie Davis, professor of international politics and policy at Colorado School of Mines. She's the author of “Shadow Warfare: Cyberwar Policy in the United States, Russia, and China.”

“As you’re nearing the end of the winter heating season, then you get some relief, generally, in shorter-term prices for natural gas,” said Brad Handler, a senior fellow with the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines.

Joel Bach, a mechanical engineering associate professor at Colorado School of Mines, leads roughly 60 seniors annually through a capstone design course in which they focus on creating adaptive sports and recreation equipment in the Human Center ....

“Even modest fuel price rises have significant political ramifications,” says Morgan Bazilian, a former EU climate negotiator and now head of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines.

The focus in the “energy world regarding the Russian invasion” has been “around the implications for oil and natural gas, which will likely be significant in various ways,” said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at ....

"Russia is one of the three top oil and natural gas producers in the world, along with the United States and Saudi Arabia. And so if there are fears or actualities of disruptions in global energy supplies, then that drives the price of oil up," said ....