In 2024, superconductivity—the flow of electric current with zero resistance—was discovered in three distinct materials. Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon.

There is a global race for those materials, but the U.S. lags behind its main competitor, China. President Trump is invoking wartime powers to help boost U.S. production of critical minerals and ...

Washington — The Pentagon has ordered military leaders to remove and review library materials related to diversity, anti-racism and gender issues within the next two weeks. The order was sent ...

MP Materials announced Thursday that it will halt shipments of rare-earth concentrates to China. One Chinese company accounted for 80% of MP's revenue in 2024. The company has a plan to keep going ...

But what really motivates Mr Trump’s lunge for Arctic land is Greenland’s “rare earths”—a category of materials vital to modern armies and economies. The president is obsessed with these ...

Redwood Materials has been on an expansion tear in recent years — growth that has extended the lithium-ion battery recycling and materials startup’s footprint well beyond its Carson City ...

Have you ever wondered what your stuff is made of? Then materials science and engineering is the major for you! Cell phones, semiconductors, automobiles, airplanes, tennis rackets, bicycles, space ...

This special phenomenon was observed at the contact of two solid materials, bismuth and graphite. Bismuth is intentionally deposited on the surface of graphite (the same material in your pencil ...