Rare earth elements are essential for modern technology, but their similar chemistry makes separation difficult and expensive ...

Rare earth elements sit quietly inside smartphones, electric vehicles, and wind turbines, yet they are notoriously difficult and dirty to produce. A new lab technique now promises to roughly double ...

This is on the back of our announcement yesterday that we've decided to use SX as the optimal route for separation for our Phalaborwa project in South Africa, and this is to separate rare earths out ...

A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

The solvent dichloromethane, or DCM, is commonly used to strip paint and cut grease. It's also what generations of chemistry students have used to dissolve pain reliever tablets in a lab exercise ...