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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.

Last year, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac) revised the atomic weights of gadolinium, lutetium ...

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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 ...

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Tom Lehrer, a Cambridge-based satirical songwriter that got his start at Harvard University, has died at age 97. You may know some of his songs ...

China mines around 70% and processes around 90% of rare earths. The U.S. is hoping to change that with investment in the ...

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