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

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's dominance in rare earth metals poses challenges for India, which seeks to establish a domestic production chain.

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Recently, the Quad Critical Minerals Initiative was launched at the Quad foreign ministers meeting. With the growing ...

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

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

As the global race for resources intensifies, Prime Minister Modi’s five-nation tour signals India’s resolve to secure its economic future through strategic mineral diplomacy ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

China's rare earth elements have become a flashpoint in global geopolitical tensions as the country leverages its dominant ...

The Quad launched a Critical Minerals Initiative to secure and diversify their supply chains, directly challenging China's dominant position in the global critical mineral market. This collaborative ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...