A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how ...

China's rare-earth monopoly enabled economic warfare through April export restrictions, but American iron nitride magnet ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

High and rising prices for rare earths used in commercial and military technologies has boosted the fortune of Australian ...

Right now, about 70% of the world's rare earth elements - key to everything from AirPods to cars - are mined in China, which ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms rapidly during solar flares, a mystery now solved by modeling time-varying ...

Fighting against rust in lubrication systems is an age-old battle. This edition of WearCheck’s Lube Kitchen Series highlights ...

Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, researchers discovered that metalworkers were using iron oxide not to smelt iron ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...