A rare ceremonial wheel from the Iron Age has been unexpectedly discovered during the construction of a golf course in ...

With China supplying around 90% of the world's rare earths, the auto manucturers in the US have had to suffer due to the ...

Western metal smelters are in crisis. China’s rapid expansion of processing capacity is crushing margins across the metallic spectrum. Copper smelters in Namibia and the Philippines have recently been ...

The Tellus Science Museum in Georgia added a 150-gram meteorite, recently seen blazing through the sky, to its collection.

U.S. astronaut Nichole "Vapor" Ayers captured a spectacular view of a phenomenon known as a "sprite" blazing to life above an ...

The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

How America Can Break Free From China’s Minerals Stranglehold America has a real shot at ending its dangerous reliance on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for rare earth elements, but only if it ...

Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have ...

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

Low environmental standards helped China become the world’s low-cost producer of rare earths, but Beijing was also focused on ...

China is stalling the exports of rare earth magnets, despite promising earlier this month to ease restrictions under a trade ...

In a rare moment of cooperation amid an era of intensifying rivalry, China and the United States last week reached a temporary agreement to ease some restrictions on the export of rare earth elements.