Rare earth elements thread invisibly through daily life, quietly powering everything from laptops to smartphones to cars.

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Rare earth elements are a group of 17 chemical elements that play an often small but irreplaceable role in many essential modern technological products. Smartphones, flat-screen TVs, digital ...

After all, China's hold on rare earth elements is a running theme in "House of Cards" (think of Raymond Tusk's push for "Samarium 149"). And defending the only U.S. rare earth mine is Jason Bourne ...

China controls almost all of the world’s rare earth elements and since December has placed export restrictions on 11 such minerals, including gadolinium, terbium and lutetium.

Unfortunately, the U.S. has virtually no way to process or refine rare earth elements into the products that the auto industry needs within our country. In addition, there are simply no other ...

Molycorp’s facility, in Mountain Pass, California, will expand production dramatically. It’s being rebuilt to produce up to 40,000 metric tons of rare-earth elements by 2013, which would be a ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as smart phones and electric car ...