Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

The element astatine is so unstable that only about 28 grams exist at any moment, decaying almost instantly after being created.

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 ...

REEs such as niobium, tantalum and ytterbium have been discovered in igneous rock layers – similar to the discovery (and ...

There are 17 rare earth elements (REEs) in all — 15 lanthanides plus yttrium and scandium. It's a fairly diverse group, with each rare earth mineral having different applications, pricing and ...

Rare Earth Elements (REEs) play a pivotal role in modern technology, and their geochemical behaviour is of considerable scientific and economic interest. The processes that govern their mobilisation, ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching ...