Their similar charge and atomic structure mean that rare earth elements can often be used interchangeably within a crystal ...

Rare earth elements are tiny yet essential parts of many of the technologies you use every day. New techniques are making their recovery from US sources increasingly viable.

In April 2025, China imposed even further export restrictions on seven additional medium and heavy rare Earth elements — ...

Enter Eugène-Anatole Demarçay who, in 1896, after patient fractionation of samarium oxide, determined the presence of a new rare-earth element between samarium and gadolinium. He isolated it in ...

University of New Mexico researchers studying the health risks posed by gadolinium, a toxic rare earth metal used in MRI scans, have found that oxalic acid, a molecule found in many foods ...