China first responded on April 3 to Trump's initial salvo of 54 percent levies on its exports by placing export restrictions ...

As U.S. President Donald Trump turns up the tariff heat on China, Beijing is targeting ever more of the United States' ...

There are 17 rare earth elements (REEs) in all — 15 lanthanides plus yttrium and scandium. It's a fairly diverse group, with ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the ...

As the U.S.–China trade war ramps up, rare earths are among the most important pieces of leverage that China controls. There ...

China is hitting back with a trade restriction on something needed by major players in multiple industries, including ...

At the end of March, it emerged that the Trump administration was making a new push for Ukraine’s natural resources, ...

Europe will probably be able to produce only a small portion of rare earths it needs for electric vehicles and wind turbines by 2030, mainly due to cheap competition from dominant producer China, a ...

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