STORY: EDITORS NOTE: THIS SCRIPT AND VIDEO HAVE BEEN REFILED DUE TO A U.S.-CHINA TRADE DEAL BEING REACHED WITH A FRAMEWORK TO REMOVE CHINESE EXPORT RESTRICTIONS ON RARE EARTH MINERALS. THE STORY WAS ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A flexible layered sulfide captures hydrated rare earth ions from radioactive water, enabling fast and selective cleanup while maintaining chemical stability and radiation resistance in a tunable ...