If you’re looking for a way to celebrate Earth Day this year, consider buying some plants for your house. Not only are they good for the environment, but they can actually aid in improving your mental ...

World powers are scrambling to get their hands on more rare earth elements to build clean energy infrastructure, batteries, ...

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A young Research Triangle Park startup will attempt to rival China's rare earth magnets control from a 1,000-worker plant south of Raleigh.

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental silicate weathering, which acts as a long-term planetary thermostat. A ...

High-value minerals can be recovered while 'remediating polluted soil and restoring the ecology of rare earth tailings', ...

The Pentagon-backed, RTP startup plans to expand its production of rare-earth magnets with a new plant near Benson, state ...

The new EPiC (Engineered Plants in Culture) project at UC Davis will explore technology for growing plants and plant tissues in bioreactors with minimal use of resources. The technology could be used ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals appeared. Using advanced molecular dating and gene transfer analysis, ...