As Beijing's new licensing rules on samarium and related materials restrict exports of these heat-resistant magnets, America's ability to produce precision-guided munitions has come under pressure.

The Trump administration has made developing domestic production capacity for permanent magnets and other rare earth products a key priority after China spent years building a global monopoly.

Automakers and aerospace firms are accelerating rare-earth-free motor designs as dependence on neodymium becomes a liability.

RIKEN physicists have discovered for the first time why the magnitude of the electron flow depends on direction in a special ...

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence ...

America’s ability to make precision-guided missiles was threatened during Trump’s tariff war. But experienced players have rescued the supply chain, for now.

Apple's easily detachable MagSafe charging system has saved countless laptops from an untimely tumble, and this gizmo lets ...

BEIJING, Dec 4 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it is issuing streamlined rare earth export licenses - a key promised outcome after a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his counterpart ...

The Trump administration on Monday said it would end yet another Temporary Protected Status immigration program, this time for nearly 4,000 immigrants from Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia ...

The president made the comment while discussing how every day products such as vehicles and computers require magnets to operate, and to support his administration's threat of high tariffs on goods ...

The Trump-Xi meeting in Busan, South Korea on 30 October 2025 may have brought about a temporary relief in the US-China trade war. But unless we see the fine print of the agreement, it is difficult to ...