President Trump says a new trade framework with China will give the U.S. access to rare earth minerals. China has a tight grip on one element critical to U.S. military hardware: Samarium. Gracelin ...

Discover the significance of rare-earth elements, their applications in technology, and the global race for their resources.

Scientists in Germany have uncovered previously unknown properties of the rare Earth element samarium by developing a powerful new technique to investigate the internal structure of atoms. For the ...

The United States is the undisputed global military superpower. With an annual defense budget approaching USD 900 billion, ...

An element spotted in an exoplanet is the heaviest element yet to be identified in a world beyond our solar system. Elements like this are expected to be both relatively rare and difficult to spot, ...

The metallic element samarium, when bound with other elements, is an incredibly useful chemical reagent for synthesizing molecules that can lead to new pharmaceuticals. Discovered in a Russian mine in ...

AFTER a long and troublesome series of investigations, I have obtained settings of the apparatus for accelerated anode rays good enough to admit of a provisional analysis of the rare earth elements.