Rice University scientists unveil a new lithium-filtering membrane that speeds extraction and cuts environmental impact.
A new book argues that simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate ...
Researchers at University of New South Wales have reported details about a novel sieving-aids technology that improves the separation of metal fragments from other components when recycling ...
A simple one-step process recovers more than 90% of rare earth elements (REEs) from magnets ( Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2025, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2507819122).