UCSB’s Justin Wilson has developed a new approach to extract rare earth elements from waste. The goal is to make rare earth element recycling financially, logistically and environmentally attractive.

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 ...

Heavy fermion materials are heavy because their electrons are entangled and slowed down by magnetic ions. These interactions ...

Scientists have tapped artificial intelligence and powerful computing to take a first step to speed up how quickly officials ...

The coming southwest Arkansas lithium boom is one of the biggest stories in our state. This industry, using a method known as direct lithium extraction (DLE), has the potential to change an entire ...

Scientists have tapped artificial intelligence and powerful computing to take a first step to speed up how quickly officials ...

Optical clocks are typically evaluated on two levels — accuracy (how close a clock comes to measuring the ideal “true” time, ...

​​In pursuit of prestige and riches, wealthy people across medieval Europe worked in vain to transmute everyday metals into ...

The revised' form of Mendelejeff's ' Periodic Table which has been drawn up in Fig. 4 presents an attempt to embody the most recent results of the different lines of' investigation that have been ...

*Grab samples are discrete samples which are typically, but not exclusively, constrained to mineralization. Grab samples are selective in nature and collected to determine the presence or absence of ...