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India is turning electronic junk into strategic gold to fuel its future. See how your old smartphone is being recycled into the powerful magnets needed for national security and energy independence.

Researchers at Penn State have developed a plant-based material that can selectively recover dysprosium, ...

The discovery of rare earths, like many stories, began with a small, unexpected event. In 1787, Carl Axel Arrhenius, a ...

A team of researchers has produced the strongest experimental evidence yet that Earth’s iron core holds enormous quantities ...

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NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your help protecting Earth against waves of punishing, disruptive solar winds.

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have identified the true source of a magnetic effect seen in the material ruthenium dioxide (RuO₂), helping resolve an active debate in the ...

A recurring pattern in materials is that the bottleneck earns rents. Outside China, there are limited scaled routes from ore → separated products → magnet manufacturing. MP is attempting to be that ...

In February 2026, Shia LaBeouf was arrested in New Orleans during Mardi Gras ...