Rare earth elements are vital for technology and abundant in nature, yet they are hard to extract. Ukraine has significant reserves, while China controls 80% of the supply chain.

From smartphones to wind turbines, rare earth elements (REEs) are an essential part of the hardware in many advanced ...

Rare earth metals are making headlines as demand rises for products from smartphones to wind turbines, and as governments ...

The race to develop new forms of clean energy is heating up, and Japan has taken the lead with a groundbreaking ...

Fu Yuxi from Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed the first room temperature holmium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride (Ho ...

Rare earth metals are making headlines as demand rises for products from smartphones to wind turbines, and as governments seek secure supply.

According to the USGS, “The rare earths are relatively abundant 17 elements composed of scandium, yttrium, and the lanthanides." The US Geological Survey (USGS) identifies 50 critical minerals ...