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

The lanthanide elements’ 4f electron orbitals are notoriously shy and retiring, and they were long thought to be unwilling partners in chemical bonding. Now chemists have brought out a surprising ...

(Nanowerk News) The path to reducing the size of electronic devices involves the use of atoms as memory elements. To convert an atom into a bit of information, it is necessary to manipulate its ...