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).

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Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...

A group of researchers, comprising James Tour and Shichen Xu from Rice University, has created a rapid, single-step technique for extracting rare earth elements (REEs) from used magnets.

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