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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers found a way to make tetrataenite, a magnetic material that usually takes millions of years to form in meteorites. Scientists have discovered a way to develop a material found in meteorites ...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Critical Materials Institute has developed a low-cost, high performance permanent magnet by drawing inspiration from an out-of-this-world source: iron-nickel ...

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.

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 ...

Vulcan Elements will build, commission, and operate a 10,000 metric tonne magnet facility in the United States. Vulcan Elements and ReElement Technologies will scale their 100% vertically-integrated, ...