Protect the supply lines. This is a fundamental military tenet. Cut the supply lines and an adversary is weakened, vulnerable, paralyzed. This rudimentary principle also applies to our current high ...

Permanent magnets sit at the heart of the green economy, from wind turbines and electric vehicles to smartphones and industrial robots. For decades, the strongest versions have depended on rare-earth ...

China's grip on global supply chains is turbocharging efforts to find alternatives to the small group of metals that dominate EV motor technology ...

The simple magnet could hold the key to more effecient ways to extract rare earth elements that are critical to modern technologies, a recent study found.