Copper prices have hit record highs as an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and its key trading partners threatens to ...

Rare earth metals are making headlines as demand rises for products from smartphones to wind turbines, and as governments seek secure supply.

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

Green-steel startup Boston Metal just showed that it has all the ingredients needed to make steel without emitting gobs of ...

Rare earths are a group of 17 elements including 15 silvery-white metals called lanthanides, or lanthanoids, plus scandium and yttrium. WHAT ARE THEY USED FOR?They are used in a wide range of ...

a pressurized gas – often a toxic chemical called hydrazine – Magdrive uses it to ionize solid metal. “That has a lot of advantages, as you can imagine,” Stokes says. Metal is very dense ...