You’ve probably heard that strong, small magnets are dangerous for children. You would not give a toddler a neodymium magnet for any reason; you know that two of them, if swallowed, can connect inside ...

THE HUMBLE magnet may not seem to belong alongside steel, microchips and oil as a chess piece in the great diplomatic game. But on April 4th, as part of its retaliation against America’s tariffs, ...

As we’ve noted, rare earth materials aren’t particularly rare—they’re relatively abundant, but they’re highly dispersed, meaning that large volumes of material must be collected, from which the rare ...

Rare earth magnets play a massive role in the auto industry, and they're found in everything from electric motors to power steering systems. But there is a downside to the dependence on rare earth ...