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NEOM's $8.4B plant leads a wave of gigawatt-scale hydrogen projects reshaping fertilizer, steel, and shipping. Here's how the biggest ones actually work.

The biggest mines on Earth expose how copper, iron, coal, gold, and diamonds reach the global economy, and why size can mean depth, output, or area.

South Korea has 1,012 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers — the highest robot density ever recorded for a major economy. That is more than six times the global average of 162, and more than double Germany's figure. The IFR World Robotics 2024 report shows a world where automation in factories is accelerating faster than at any point in industrial history.

The synthesis process that enabled agriculture to feed billions