A magnet is an important part of devices like smartphones, automobiles, and many more. Most of these magnets are made using rare-earth materials, which are expensive and scarce on the market. Also, ...

What do EVs, fighter jets and digital cameras have in common? Rare earth elements that are wanted everywhere but only sourced in some places.

MP Materials' Mountain Pass mine and new magnet factories are central to efforts to secure critical minerals used in ...

Georgetown University researchers have discovered a new class of strong magnets that do not rely on rare-earth or precious metals—a breakthrough that could significantly advance clean energy ...

MP Materials is moving beyond mining to manufacture magnets. Here's why.

Beginning in 2027, the Pentagon will prohibit the use of Chinese-origin rare earth magnet materials in U.S. military platforms. That mandate cuts through the American defense industrial base, ...

WILLISTON — Tucked away in Williston, South Carolina, there lies a technology that is yet to be operational anywhere else in the United States. This technology is found in a pair of machines that can ...

Although most of us simultaneously accept the premise that magnets are quite literally everywhere and that few people know how they work, a major problem with magnets today is that they tend to rely ...

SUMTER COUNTY, S.C. — Less than two years after breaking ground, eVAC Magnetics turned a soybean field into a manufacturing facility and has shipped its first rare-earth permanent magnets for ...

Growing trade tensions with China have intensified U.S. efforts to develop a self-sufficient supply chain of critical minerals. USA Rare Earth is looking to position itself as a key player in the ...

China’s rare earth advantage does not equal strategic supremacy. China has increasingly incorporated critical minerals and ...