Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...

S cientists had high hopes for the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe. The actual findings ...

An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...

Materials science might seem very technical, but as a scientific discipline, it has led to many shifts in society over the ...

A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu, brought back to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe, has revealed a fiery mineral that no one ...

The Weis Earth Science Museum first opened in November 2001. Hailed by an Appleton Post-Crescent editorial as "a rare jewel," the museum was designated as Wisconsin's official mineralogical museum ...

President Donald Trump announced June 11 that the United States will get magnets and rare earth minerals from China under a new trade deal and that tariffs on Chinese goods will go to 55%.

Similarly, in 2023 Stellantis — the company that makes Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Fiat — signed a tentative agreement with NioCorp, a rare earth minerals mining company in Nebraska, to ...

Similarly, in 2023 Stellantis — the company that makes Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Fiat — signed a tentative agreement with NioCorp, a rare earth minerals mining company in Nebraska, to ...

"There’s plenty of (rare earth minerals) in the Unites States, but we don’t have much in the way to process it," Abuelsamid said. "China has a stranglehold on these right now.

Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For decades, scientists puzzled over this D' layer. Now, groundbreaking ...

President Trump said China's Xi agreed to resume rare earth mineral exports to the U.S. after an April halt, marking progress in trade negotiations between the two countries.