There are 17 rare earth elements (REEs) in all — 15 lanthanides plus yttrium and scandium. It's a fairly diverse group, with each rare earth mineral having different applications, pricing and ...

There are 118 elements on the period i c table, and you might think we are made up of many of them. But that's not the case; the complex systems that make up our bodies have a surprisingly simple ...

So-called rare earth elements refer to 17 chemically-similar, silvery-white elements that are used to make magnets – which in ...

The US trade deal with China seeks to resolve a major sticking point of their ongoing trade war: rare-earth minerals.

At the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact, they ...

Rare earth elements (REEs) are a group of 17 metallic elements essential in many modern technologies. Despite their name, they are not actually rare, but they are difficult to extract and refine. In ...