Kyoto, Japan -- "Why are we here?" is humanity's most fundamental and persistent question. Tracing the origins of the elements is a direct attempt to answer this at its deepest level. We know many ...

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 ...

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Seventeen elements of the periodic table have taken on outsize importance because of their use in smartphones, electric vehicles, medical devices, and other technologies. They’re valued for their ...

Primordial nucleosynthesis during the early universe generated hydrogen, helium, and minor lithium-7 before the cosmos cooled, halting further fusion. Stellar interiors synthesize elements up to iron ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The acclaimed Irish novelist's sweeping epic hits shelves this September. Read a third early sneak peek here Lizz Schumer is the senior ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The acclaimed Irish novelist comes out with a sweeping epic this September. Read our second early sneak peek here Lizz Schumer is the ...

The Trump administration's plan to identify and disenroll people who are enrolled in more than one federal or state-sponsored health plan is leaving several unanswered questions for policy experts. In ...

Startup Vulcan Elements said it raised $65 million in a new funding round to increase production of the rare-earth magnets crucial to everything from drones to electric vehicles. The funding signals ...

Rare earth elements sustain the Information Age, and securing a supply of these metals has become a matter of national and economic security. They’re ubiquitous in our smart technologies, high ...

GENEVA, June 26 (Reuters) - Researchers at ETH University in Zurich have developed a new method to efficiently recover rare earth elements from electronic waste, advancing sustainable recycling and ...