Discover the significance of rare-earth elements, their applications in technology, and the global race for their resources.

China’s control over rare earth elements did not happen overnight. It is the result of decades of investment across every stage of the chain — from mining and reserves to processing and technology — ...

The United States imports nearly 80% of the rare earth elements it uses in the production of critical electronics. That has made securing mining rights and import agreements a hot political topic. NBC ...

The ₹7,280-crore scheme to establish an integrated manufacturing ecosystem for 6,000 tonnes of sintered rare earth permanent magnets a year signals that if India can make magnets domestically, it will ...

The waste left over from spent fossil fuel may contain a treasure trove of rare-earth elements worth billions of dollars. In a 2024 paper, geologists calculated that the waste ash from coal burnt in ...

Looking ahead: The rare-earth sector now sits at the intersection of chemistry, geopolitics, and industrial finance. On one side lies a legacy global system dominated by large solvent-extraction ...

Companies like Phoenix Tailings, which recently began producing metal in New Hampshire, are using new processing methods to ...

Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map rocks hosting lithium and other critical minerals on Earth's surface some ...

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 ...

A "breakthrough" discovery about the fern species Blechnum orientale could help to ease the rare earth element (REE) crisis and pave the way for a “green” extraction process for the metals. While the ...

India has approved a $820 million scheme to boost rare earth magnet production, aiming to diversify supply chains and reduce ...

Vulcan said Monday it will build and operate a 10,000-metric-ton magnet production facility in the U.S., while ReElement Technologies scales its recycling and refining of rare earth oxides from end-of ...