MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Niron Magnetics, the world’s only producer of powerful rare-earth-free permanent magnets, today announced the grand opening of its commercial pilot plant in Minneapolis.

Two researchers who independently developed the neodymium magnet — used in everything from hard disk drives to automobiles — have been awarded the 44th Honda Prize. In 1982, two researchers working ...

Georgetown University researchers have discovered a new class of strong magnets that do not rely on rare-earth or precious metals—a breakthrough that could significantly advance clean energy ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for manufacturing strong magnetic materials that improves the quality of the magnets, produces the magnets quickly, uses less energy and is less expensive ...

Magnets attract certain metals, and apparently Georgia attracts magnets. On Wednesday, Gov. Brian Kemp announced that JS Link America is building a $223 million permanent magnet manufacturing facility ...

You may not know what neodymium is (or even how to pronounce it). But you have plenty of it in your home.

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Protect the supply lines. This is a fundamental military tenet. Cut the supply lines and an adversary is weakened, vulnerable, paralyzed. This rudimentary principle also applies to our current high ...

This month, the Trump administration announced the launch of Project Vault, a $12 billion investment in a critical minerals stockpile to blunt America’s longstanding reliance on China. This stockpile ...