Since their relatively recent appearance on the commercial scene, rare-earth magnets have made quite a splash in the public imagination. The amount of magnetic energy packed into these tiny ...

A team of scientists in South Korea has developed a new way to make high-performance permanent magnets without using costly ...

Rare earth metals are making headlines as demand rises for products from smartphones to wind turbines, and as governments seek secure supply.

Superconductors aside, these devices are pretty much all operating in the same way; an object with a permanent rare-earth magnet is held in a stable position between a pair of electromagnets one ...

This year, MP Materials will become the first company in a generation to make rare-earth magnets in the United States, threatening one of China’s ace cards in the escalating trade war.

Blackboxstocks Inc. has agreed to acquire REalloys Inc., aiming to create a fully integrated rare earth magnet producer in North America. Post-merger, Blackbox shareholders will own 7.3% of the ...

They are also used in the production of lasers, glass, magnetic materials and numerous industrial processes. REEs [rare earth elements] are a group of 17 chemical elements that are included in the ...

While the United States created the rare earths industry in World War Two and U.S. military scientists developed the most widely-used type of rare earth magnet, China has slowly grown to control ...

Rare earth metals are making headlines as demand rises for products from smartphones to wind turbines, and as governments seek secure supply.