Georgetown University researchers have discovered a new class of strong magnets that do not rely on rare-earth or precious ...

Trump’s push to break that chokepoint is lifting rare-earths startups. Phoenix Tailings, a startup focused on recycling ...

What’s going on with this silent threat that can stealthily damage your body in ways that can take years to reveal themselves ...

Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new helium sources — and finding enormous "carbon-free" reservoirs that could ...

More than a half century after the U.S. ignited 67 atomic weapons in the central Pacific Ocean, a former Navy base in the Bay Area continues to carry that nuclear legacy. Last week, residents were ...

The San Francisco Health Department is sounding the alarm over high levels of radioactive plutonium-239 (Pu-239) detected in the air in Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Plutonium 239 is a radioactive ...

Alarmingly high levels of plutonium-239 have been detected at the long troubled former Hunters Point Shipyard, prompting the San Francisco Department of Public Health to warn community groups about ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia detected traces of radioactive cesium 137 at a clove plantation as it searches for the source of radioactive contamination that forced recalls of shrimp and spices ...

KREEP is believed to have formed during the final cooling phase of the moon, when radioactive elements built up in the space between the moon's newly formed mantle and crust. Studying these elements ...