Rare earth elements are vital minerals used in electronics, renewable energy, and defense. Despite their name, they are relatively abundant but hard to extract economically.

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 ...

Some of the most coveted metals on the planet are not just expensive, they are almost unimaginably scarce in Earth's crust ...

Can the rest of the world challenge Beijing’s dominance of high-performance magnets by developing new mining projects?

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 ...

Today's high-tech electronics and green energy technologies would not function without rare earth elements (REEs). These 17 metals possess unique properties essential to creating items like the ...

On October 9, 2025, China’s Industry Safety and Import/Export Control Bureau under the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) issued several notifications to impose export controls on products, equipment, and ...

A new federally funded research project at the University of California, Davis, endeavors to extract valuable components for magnets, lasers and other modern technologies from an unlikely source: ...