Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have ...

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 ...

Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...

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Three novel bimetallic hybrid crystals featuring rubidium–alkaline-earth metal pairs and trifluoroacetato ligands were synthesized, and their utility as self-fluorinating single-source precursors to ...

In a nutshell Scientists engineered a self-sustaining system using cyanobacteria and fungi that can grow on Martian soil ...

Blink and you might miss it, but if you keep your eye on the monitors in professor Sebastian Will's lab, you'll catch a ...

We developed a drop-tube reactor with a separation unit containing a quartz glass filter that is capable of fractionating alkali and alkaline earth metals (AAEMs) released as solid particle, vapor, ...

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China's commerce ministry said on Thursday that "a certain number" of rare earth export licence applications had been approved, but declined to give further details such as the exact amount and ...