Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

Rare earth elements are vital to new technologies and industry but hard to obtain. A new project led by UC Davis and funded by a grant from ARPA-E aims to develop acid-tolerant bacteria that can ...

The distribution is highly uneven. China alone holds nearly half of the global total, followed by Brazil’s sizable deposits.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration and private investors are partnering with two rare earth startups in a $1.4 billion deal to scale up the nation’s access to materials and technology that is ...

A bunch of materials called rare earth elements (REE) that are crucial for producing a vast range of tech products – from electric cars to smartphones to wind turbines – typically require destructive ...

Rare earth elements are becoming increasingly critical to the development and deployment of next-generation technologies. Limited refining capacity and concentrated supply chains threaten innovation ...

The group of rare earth elements (REEs) comprises a total of 17 elements, all of which possess similar chemical properties. In addition to the two lightest elements, scandium and yttrium, the group ...

Rare Element Resources ( (REEMF)) has issued an update. Rare Element Resources Ltd. announced progress on its rare earth processing and separation demonstration plant in Upton, Wyoming, with ...

Seventeen elements of the periodic table have taken on outsize importance because of their use in smartphones, electric vehicles, medical devices, and other technologies. They’re valued for their ...

Materials that are essential for the transition to a sustainable society are currently being extracted using methods that are far from sustainable or environment-friendly. Magnets based on REE are ...

Although rare-earth elements (REEs) are not very rare, their recovery and purification is very cumbersome, with no ...