A new federally funded research project at UC Davis endeavors to extract valuable components for magnets, lasers and other modern technologies from an unlikely source: acidic wastewater from mines and ...

A new federally funded research project at the University of California, Davis, endeavors to extract valuable components for magnets, lasers and other modern technologies from an unlikely source: ...

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 ...

They’re gorgeous, dazzling, passionately pursued, and worth billions. No, not Hollywood starlets and hunks and the stars of K-Pop. Well, OK, yes – they are gorgeous, dazzling, passionately pursued, ...

Israel Gomez, plant manager at ReElement’s Noblesville facility, shows how the company processes elements like lithium, germanium, gadolinium, antimony and yttrium for reuse from recycled materials.

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 ...

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 ...

A container with 10 grams of yttrium, a rare earth element, is passed around during a meeting of the Indiana Rare Earth Recovery Council on Nov. 13, 2025. (Photo by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz/Indiana ...

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 ...

Mario Ramos was named the September winner of the South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program. Ramos captured 34 invasive Burmese pythons, earning a $1,000 bonus. A total of ...