GM and Niron have teamed up to pry the EV motor material supply chain away from China. Did you know GM invented the domestic, ...

THE HUMBLE magnet may not seem to belong alongside steel, microchips and oil as a chess piece in the great diplomatic game. But on April 4th, as part of its retaliation against America’s tariffs, ...

Elected officials, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer and U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, shovel dirt during a groundbreaking event at Niron Magnetics’ new manufacturing facility in ...

Trump invoked the 69-year-old Defense Production Act to remedy what he called “a shortfall” in production of the super-strong magnets made with rare-earth minerals neodymium and samarium. President ...

Protect the supply lines. This is a fundamental military tenet. Cut the supply lines and an adversary is weakened, vulnerable, paralyzed. This rudimentary principle also applies to our current high ...

Apple just announced a commitment of $500 million over several years to buy rare earth magnets from the US-based company MP Materials. These rare earth magnets are used in a number of products, ...

Since early April, China has stopped almost all shipments of critical minerals that are needed for cars, robots, wind turbines, jet fighters and other technologies. By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher, ...

The first fusion reactions in a laboratory were achieved in 1934 — a major breakthrough at the time. Today, however, achieving a fusion reaction is not particularly difficult: in 2018, a ...

A research team has taken a major step forward in the field of spintronics, a technology that uses not only the charge but also the spin of electrons to create faster, smarter, and more ...