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).

The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And according to new research, a copper smelting site used roughly 3,000 years ago ...

Elements used to make magnets have become a bargaining chip in the U.S. trade war with China. A Minnesota company is trying to replace rare-earth magnets.

Niron Magnetics (Minneapolis, Minn.) has broken ground on a new state-of-the-art 1,500-ton-per-year permanent magnet manufacturing facility in Sartell, ...