From cell phones to wind turbines and missile defense systems, modern technologies depend on critical minerals like rare ...

Since their relatively recent appearance on the commercial scene, rare-earth magnets have made quite a splash in the public imagination. The amount of magnetic energy packed into these tiny, shiny ...

All the world’s discarded phones, bricked laptops, and other trashed electronics are collectively a treasure trove of rare earth elements (REEs). But separating out and recovering these increasingly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An innovation that came into existence years ago could now help the United States tackle China's dominance in a key sector. A ...

ReElement will utilize its proprietary technology for rare-earth magnet recycling and ore purification to produce magnet-grade rare earth oxides to power Vulcan's fully-domestic magnet manufacturing ...

Neodymium is a rare-earth element essential for producing the strongest permanent magnets, which are widespread in defense technologies, hard drives, medical imaging devices, electric vehicle motors, ...

As some of the world’s largest automakers ramp up production for a generation of electric vehicles, the supply of one of the most important ingredients—rare-earth elements—is surely a cause for ...

The US Department of Defense agreed to lend $700 million to producers of rare earth magnets in a bid to increase domestic production of materials used in consumer electronics and weapons. The ...

Under new MOU, Energy Fuels (UUUU) to supply Vulcan Elements with ex-China high-purity "light" and "heavy" rare earth oxides for production of rare earth permanent magnets in the United States, using ...

Rare-earth elements are a set of metallic elements in the periodic table. Chemists usually refer to a group of 17 elements when they use this label: the 15 lanthanides from lanthanum to lutetium, and ...

How can two metals that are not magnetic combine to make a magnet? Scientists have found one answer in their creation of the first known itinerant antiferromagnet from nonmagnetic constituents.

The US Department of Defense agreed to lend $700 million to producers of rare-earth magnets in a bid to increase domestic production of materials used in consumer electronics and weapons. The ...