China has pulled back its rare earths exports, which are vital to everyday technologies and American defense. But the U.S.

Rare earth elements and rare earth metals refer to the specific category of 17 elements on the periodic table, and rare earth minerals refers to the minerals, such as monazite, that contain these ...

Ten new entries on the periodic table (including gadolinium, named en homage) and almost a hundred years later, scientists were still finding new rare-earth elements in the same unassuming black ...

Rare earth magnets are in a lot of everyday items, and make a lot of your most basic electronics work, but they're also an essential component in cars.

In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which end ...

For a thing whose name means 'hidden,' rare earth metals are surprisingly important to everyday life.

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 ...

Starting around 2016 China began consolidating its large rare earth manufactures, closing the dirtiest mines, and outsourcing the mining to Myanmar (another dictatorship with few scruples).

At the Berkeley Pit, researchers hope to extract valuable metals to increase U.S. production of rare earths used in electric cars, medical advances and national defense.

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.

They are in your phone and your car, yet most people have never heard of them. As demand for clean energy and high-tech gadgets soars, rare earth elements have become more indispensable ...

China is limiting US access to critical minerals in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, but the move isn’t as devastating as Beijing wants it to be.