GM and Niron have teamed up to pry the EV motor material supply chain away from China. Did you know GM invented the domestic, affordable permanent magnet? Before this neodymium-iron-boron magnet came ...

Rarely a week went by in 2025 without some newsworthy development related to rare earth elements, magnets, and electric motors. IEEE Spectrum was on top of the big ones, starting with the production ...

The electric vehicle revolution has created market forces to drive all sorts of innovations. Battery technology has ...

An innovation that came into existence years ago could now help the United States tackle China's dominance in a key sector. A scientist working at the University of Minnesota lab years ago developed ...

China announced export restrictions to the US on some rare earth minerals on April 4th in retaliation to Trump’s tariffs, and the New York Times has a deep dive on the limits set for rare earth ...