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Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

In response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China, which currently stand at 145 percent, the country has played its trump card: rare earth ... sources, all of these metals are mixed ...

From fighter planes to nuclear reactor rods and smartphones, rare earth ... the elements being targeted. Lutetium is used a chemical catalyst fluid in oil refiners. The US buys almost all of ...

Scientists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics found a single giant flare from a ...