Synthetic silicon carbide used as abrasive material, semiconductor in electronics or diamond jewel imitation. In nature is rare as raw moissanite mineral I hate to write about this because rare earth ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, ...

The European Union is actively seeking rare-earth suppliers outside of China, focusing on Brazil, which holds the world's second-largest resources. The main challenge for Europe is not the rarity of ...

Europe remains overwhelmingly dependent on China for rare earths, a vulnerability highlighted by recent export restrictions that disrupted manufacturing. New mining projects in Norway and Sweden, ...

Drones, missiles and other crucial components of Europe’s rush to rearm itself rely on an increasingly unsteady supply of minerals from China. By Jeanna Smialek Reporting from Brussels European ...

For half a century, satellites have chased the same prize: ever sharper pictures of Earth. Each advance brought more pixels and greater clarity, but only in terms of how things looked. Now, a ...