Scientists discover that large amounts of nitrogen could be hidden in the Earth's metallic core, which would solve a ...

China has pulled back its rare earths exports, which are vital to everyday technologies and American defense. But the U.S.

Many modern devices—from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines—rely on strong magnets made from ...

But we can't: The precious metal lies more than 1,800 miles below the surface. It's up to Earth, then, to dish out its gold reserves as it sees fit—a process that is slowly and surely on its way.

Göttingen University discovers gold and precious metals in Hawaiian volcanic rocks, revealing Earth's core materials leaking into the mantle, challenging previous isolation assumptions.

A groundbreaking study by the University of Göttingen in Germany, published in the journal Nature, suggests that Earth's core is leaking gold and other precious metals into the layers above.

About 90 percent of rare earth magnets are produced in China, and 99.9 percent of the world’s dysprosium, which the chipmaker Nvidia uses to create capacitors, is mined in China.