Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...

Green Lantern has fought evil with the power of will on his side for decades, and DC’s Earth One graphic novel series finally made a major and long-incoming alteration to Hal Jordan’s backstory. DC ...

Since Edward Burtynsky’s birth in Ontario, Canada, in 1955, the Earth’s population has roughly tripled, and its economy has ...

Letters to House and Senate appropriators follow the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the office and elimination of ...

India-based obsolete electronics recycling firm says it will grow its rare earth elements recycling capacity one hundredfold. Attero says its patented process extracts rare earth elements from ...

What do electric vehicles, fighter jets and digital cameras have in common? Rare earth elements. They're wanted everywhere but can only be sourced from a few places.

While there are over a hundred known elements, the vast majority of the material on Earth is composed of just a handful of elements; oxygen, silicon, aluminum, to name a few. But what is the Earth ...

As the U.S. seeks new means of extracting rare earth elements, Western Kentucky University’s Advanced Materials Institute has partnered with a distinguished private research university in ...

Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a new method for extracting rare earth elements, such as lanthanum, using tiny tubes made of proteins. This process is similar to how cells in … ...

Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas refining, and computer and phone screens. The 17 rare earth elements all ...

Rare earth elements are split into several classes (light, middle and heavy), each with different properties that make them ideal for specific applications.