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 ...

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

Rare earth elements possess unique properties like magnetic strength, heat resistance, and light transmission. Many rare earths and strategic metals are primarily produced and refined in China, posing ...

You are entirely forgiven for not knowing this, since they are not especially rare — cerium is about as common as copper. The problem is that they’re difficult to isolate and purify; it wouldn’t be ...

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 ...

Quebec Rare Earth Elements Corp. (CSE: QREE) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an option agreement to acquire ...

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: ...