Nano-scale snowflake made from zinc. Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms created something unexpected: Tiny metallic snowflakes. The research aims to study ...

Rare earth elements (REEs) are a group of 17 metallic elements essential in many modern technologies. Despite their name, they are not actually rare, but they are difficult to extract and refine. In ...

Despite their name, rare earth elements (REEs) are a relatively abundant group of 17 metallic elements. In fact, the three most abundant REEs, cerium, lanthanum, and neodymium, are more plentiful than ...

(Nanowerk News) A UK-led international team of researchers has discovered elemental metallic copper and iron in the human brain for the first time. The team, comprised of scientists from Keele ...

The synthesis of high-entropy alloy nanoparticles (HEA-NPs) — small particles each containing multiple principal metal elements — typically requires extreme conditions to ensure adequate mixing of ...

For the first time since the 1970s, researchers have made enough of the element einsteinium to experiment with it. Join Pop Mech Pro and get exclusive answers to your most pressing science questions, ...

Rare earth elements are a group of 17 metallic elements that are crucial components in electronics, electric vehicles, renewable energy technologies and semiconductors. But resources are concentrated ...

Rare-earth elements are a set of metallic elements in the periodic table. Chemists usually refer to a group of 17 elements when they use this label: the 15 lanthanides from lanthanum to lutetium, and ...