RAPID CITY, S.D. — After three years of research, two South Dakota Mines professors have developed a sustainable method to extract rare earth elements from discarded coal mine waste, possibly creating ...

Seventeen elements of the periodic table have taken on outsize importance because of their use in smartphones, electric vehicles, medical devices, and other technologies. They’re valued for their ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana leaders gathered Thursday to consider how the state could mine its ample coal waste for the rare earth elements key to modern technology — in a bid to boost domestic production ...

Indiana leaders gathered Thursday to consider how the state could mine its ample coal waste for the rare earth elements key to modern technology — in a bid to boost domestic production and break China ...

Processes that violate baryon number, most notably proton decay and n¯n transitions, are promising probes of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) needed to understand the lack of antimatter in the ...

A small but mighty microbe that can safely extract the rare earth and other critical elements for building everything from satellites to solar panels has another superpower: capturing carbon dioxide.

Many electronic devices, from smartphones and computers to wind turbines, include rare earth elements. These elements are both scarce and often only obtainable from China. These challenges have gotten ...

Rare Earth elements are important for everyday technologies like batteries and solar panels. But extracting them can create toxic waste. Lily Burton of WUNC tells us how researchers are experimenting ...

MOUNT STORM, W.Va. — Down a long gravel road, tucked into the hills in West Virginia, is a low-slung building where researchers are extracting essential elements from an old coal mine that they hope ...