Beginning in 2027, the Pentagon will prohibit the use of Chinese-origin rare earth magnet materials in U.S. military platforms. That mandate cuts through the American defense industrial base, ...

Permanent magnets sit at the heart of the green economy, from wind turbines and electric vehicles to smartphones and industrial robots. For decades, the strongest versions have depended on rare-earth ...

Scientists at the University of New Hampshire have unleashed artificial intelligence to dramatically speed up the hunt for next-generation magnetic materials. By building a massive, searchable ...

About a decade after he bought a shuttered rare earths mine that was, literally, partially underwater, MP Materials CEO James Litinsky has transformed his business into a pivotal player in America’s ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The struggle for geopolitical supremacy is rapidly becoming a struggle over one critical resource - rare earth magnets. They will determine whether the United ...

For more than a decade, the United States has treated rare earth independence as a mining problem. But the real vulnerability is further downstream. That’s where rare earths are turned into metals and ...