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As you might expect from a pirate game with ship-building elements like Skull and Bones, precious metals are an extremely valuable commodity. During the early game of Skull and Bones, you'll start off with a great need for Iron, but that quickly turns into a demand for Bronze, which is made by using Copper.Bronze Ingots are a requirement in dozens of crafting recipes that pop up as you begin to establish yourself as a bonafide pirate. As such, you'll need to know where to find Copper so you can harvest…

While you’re exploring, catching new Pals, and collecting resources in Palworld, you will eventually stumble upon some high-tier treasure chests. While this may give you an initial surge of excitement, if you find yourself lacking any keys with which to open it, your mood may deflate rather quickly. Keys come in three distinct types, with Copper and Silver being a bit easier to get than the Gold ones, but they are still no walk in the park. There are two main ways to get them, so let’s unlock the secret of the keys…

Copper wire thefts have plagued Los Angeles for years, posing safety hazards and costing the city millions of dollars. The incidents have surged this last year, according to city officials, who in the past few months have escalated their efforts to curtail both the thieves and the buyers of the stolen wires.In the latest move, City Councilmembers Kevin de León and Traci Park put forward motions this week to combat the “sheer magnitude of thefts,” which they say have resulted in citywide repair costs exceeding $17…

As with the original biomes in Disney Dreamlight Valley, the A Rift in Time expansion features a variety of obstacles that stand between you and where you'd like to go--such as the multi-sized copper rocks you'll notice all across the world. These will require you to upgrade your Royal Pickaxe before you can clear them, so let's walk through how to do so.How to get rid of copper rocks in Disney Dreamlight ValleyThere are two types of copper rocks to clear out on Eternity Isle: small and large. We'll cover…

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium — these foundational materials are literally what the modern world is built on. Without sand for glass, say goodbye to our fiber optic internet. No copper means no conductive wiring. And a world without lithium is a world without rechargeable batteries.For the final installment of Hitting the Books for 2023, we're bringing you an excerpt from the fantastic Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway. A finalist for the Financial Times and…

You've been playing Lego Fortnite for a while, and you've upgraded your crafting bench to rare quality and have unlocked all sorts of new blueprints to build. There's just one problem: most of these blueprints require new materials you don't have yet, like copper. But, fortunately for you, we're about to tell you where to find that, how to harvest it, and what to do with it once you have it.Where to find copper in Lego FortniteYou'll likely have to venture pretty far from your home village to get copper,…

Copper is not new to medicine, having been used in infection-fighting nanoparticles and implants, among many other innovations. However, it hasn’t quite been used in the way some chemists from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have achieved, and it paves the way for simpler and much cheaper drug production in the future.Using ozone, a form of oxygen, as a reagent and the metal as a catalyst, the scientists were able to break the carbon-carbon bonds of different types of organic molecules. The ozone broke the…

Miners are turning to machine learning, cutting-edge chemistry and other innovative means to increase the supply of critical materials such as copper and graphite amid the rising demand for green technologies. In 2011, Nico Cuevas, a Mexican immigrant and Arizona resident, realized Tesla would require a source of graphite for battery anodes to build electric vehicles in the U.S. Fortunately, it just so happened that a friend’s family owned an artisanal graphite mine in Mexico. Unfortunately…

Researchers poring over genomes of people who lived during the Copper Age have found older cultural contacts between ancient groups than previously known.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter KillerThe early contacts—about a millennium earlier than expected—may clarify when technology and cultural exchanges occured between groups in the North Caucasus and the northwestern edge of the Black Sea. The team’s research was published today in Nature.“The surprising finding was that the genetically mixed…

A modern male-centered view of archaeological remains has overlooked a possible matriarchal society in ancient Europe.A lavish burial site from the Copper Age, unearthed in southwest Spain in 2008, is not the final resting place of a young male leader, as scientists once assumed.As it turns out, the so-called 'Ivory Man' is actually an 'Ivory Lady'.According to researchers at the University of Seville and the University of Vienna, the Ivory Lady's molars and incisors both contain the AMELX gene, which is involved in the…