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MP Materials is transforming from a niche miner to a fully integrated rare earth monopoly, controlling the only scaled US ...

Battery material startup Mitra Chem has raised $15.6 million of a planned $50 million funding round, according to a regulatory filing seen by TechCrunch. Mitra Chem is developing materials to make ...

Investors in The Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund (Symbol: XLF) saw new options become available today, for the July 25th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked ...

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After securing a new deal for American-sourced Graphite, a critical material for EV batteries, Lucid is bolstering its US supply chain. Lucid expands EV battery supply chain in the US.

MP Materials owns the Mountain Pass Mine in California about 55 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada. Mountain Pass is the only producing rare earth mine in the United States, and it is advancing in ...

Amid the Trump administration's feud with Harvard University, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said she wants the school to come to negotiate with the White House.

The EU list is part of the implementation of the Critical Raw Material Act agreed in 2023 under which the bloc aims to mine 10%, process 40% and recycle 25% of its needs by 2030.

Material has hopped on that bandwagon with its just-introduced MK Free Board, “a 100% plant-based cutting board, free of permanent microplastics,” as the brand describe it.

Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife.

Scientists at Rice University have engineered a groundbreaking new material—a Kramers nodal line metal—by subtly altering the crystal symmetry of tantalum disulfide with indium. (Artist’s concept.) ...