UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong noticed that some tiny dots had appeared on one of her samples, which had been accidentally ...

ORNL’s David Radford displays a germanium detector of his design (its central contact visible at the 3 in. mark), vital to the LEGEND research efforts. Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford ...

Critical minerals are in demand around the world for military, technological and other uses. A geoscientist shares what’s ...

The United States relies heavily on other countries, particularly China, for essential metals used in technology, and this ...

Avec le lancement d'un nouvel inventaire minier, la France entre à son tour dans la course aux minerais stratégiques.

If you start with a two-dimensional ribbon and make it narrower and narrower, when does it stop being a ribbon and start ...

A recent study reveals critical sustainability challenges for germanium (Ge), a vital metal used in advanced technologies such as infrared optics and ...

Scott Montgomery says the US-Ukraine deal highlights Ukraine’s wealth of critical minerals, but extracting them isn’t ...

Manganese is an essential element in steelmaking and batteries. Ukraine is estimated to have the largest total reserves in the world at 2.4 billion tons. However, the deposits are of fairly low grade ...

Since Tsianos started receiving those calls, tensions over the 31st element on the periodic table—as well as the 32nd, germanium, also used in a bevy of advanced technologies—have escalated.