The electric motors that power today’s EVs rely on permanent magnets made using rare-earth metals such as neodymium. Rare earths are the 15 elements whose atomic numbers run from 57 to 71, plus yttrium and scandium. They are silve…
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Malaysia will develop a policy to ban exports of rare earth raw materials to avoid exploitation and loss of resources, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Monday, making it the latest country to …
Scientists use AI to find new magnetic materials without critical elements. A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory developed a new machine learning model for discovering critical-elemen…
BEIJING/HANOI, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Chinese rare earth prices jumped to their highest in 20 months, as mining suspension in major producer Myanmar sparked stockpiling ahead of the peak consumption season, analysts said on Thursday. …
Neo Performance Materials Inc. recently broke ground on its first rare earth magnet manufacturing facility in Europe. Based in Narva, Estonia, the plant is designed to produce specialised rare earth permanent magnets for electric …
More than half a century has passed since John F. Kennedy delivered his iconic 'We choose to go to the moon' speech at Rice University. What followed was a titanic space race which captivated the world and saw the US and Soviet Un…