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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: For more than three decades, scientists have explored ways to leverage certain metal-producing powers of hyperaccumulators, a family of more than 700 ...

Rare-earth metals have become a hot topic in the world, but is it a good idea to buy an ETF dedicated to the niche?

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: ...