Buried within the rocks of Mountain Pass are rare-earth elements—a group of metals that play a vital role in nearly every twenty-first-century technology. They help make the high-strength magnets that ...

When Swedish lieutenant-turned-rockhound Carl Axel Arrhenius picked up an odd black stone near the village of Ytterby in 1787, chemists called the ore “rare Earth.” “Rare” meant no one had seen it ...

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Rare-earth metals, also known as lanthanides, are critical parts of modern life that are often hidden in plain sight. Their name comes from the Greek "lanthanein," which means "hidden." True to form, ...

Two researchers who independently developed the neodymium magnet — used in everything from hard disk drives to automobiles — have been awarded the 44th Honda Prize. In 1982, two researchers working ...

MP Materials will build a $1.25 billion facility in Northlake, creating more than 1,500 jobs. The U.S. Defense Department-backed project aims to expand domestic production and reduce U.S. reliance on ...

The struggle for geopolitical supremacy is rapidly becoming a struggle over one critical resource - rare earth magnets. They will determine whether the United States can build military equipment at ...

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