China produces the entire world’s supply of samarium, a rare earth metal that the United States and its allies need to ...

Butterflies are among the most beautiful creatures on this planet. They enthrall people with their delicacy, innocence, and ...

Metals like magnesium, iron, and calcium naturally react with carbon dioxide to form minerals that lock the gas away for good ...

Texas A&M engineers have won a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to perfect a method of extraction that could save ...

We need rare earth minerals for use in items we rely on for modern life. New tech holds possibilities for mining at home for ...

Rare-earth elements are also found in phosphors ... about minerals while they're still in the ground, and the whole thing may fizzle. It would be far from the first time a prospector has claimed ...

China has implemented new export controls for rare earth minerals and magnets. The changes could upend the shift to electric vehicles.

Researchers have found ... minerals and rare earths. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin said last year that U.S. coal ash contains nearly 11 million tons of rare earth elements ...

Scientists discuss the ordinary rocks found on Earth’s surface that are special, rare, or nonexistent elsewhere ... tectonics and water are not the only things to set it apart.

And part of NETL’s directive, I guess it goes back to about 2017 or 2018, was that the [US] Department of Defense had tasked them to discover where rare earth and critical minerals might be able to be ...

Strong and compact, rare-earth magnets have found their way into everything from ... That China is exploiting its dominance of rare earths and the things made from them is hardly new: in 2010 ...