The seventh row of the table was completed in 2016 when Tennessine, Nihonium, Moscovium, and Oganesson were added. Elements ...

Silicon is the backbone of the semiconductor industry, but it's also interesting in its own right. Here's why it's so ...

Back in the old days—the really old days—the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of ...

Indium belongs to a group of elements that has never been brought to an ultracool state before, but a team of researchers has ...

Born in the Rhine region of Germany in 1896, Ida Tacke knew as she grew up she did not want to be a schoolteacher, and ...

Greenland is flush with rare earth elements, which America needs for tech and defense—but China largely controls.

If you have unwanted gold, silver, or jewelry lying around your house, you can sell it to a recycler who will give you cash ...

Sophia Kalantzakos examines the geopolitics of critical minerals, emphasizing the significance of rare earth elements (REEs) ...

EU’s €2.3 million push to recycle nuclear waste into rare earth elements critical for everything from smartphones to MRI ...

The Murchison meteorite, which fell in Australia in 1969, is over 4.6 billion years old and provides insights into the solar system’s formation. It contains pre-solar grains and organic compounds, ...

The Department of Defense is intensifying efforts to secure critical minerals essential for military systems, amid growing ...