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 ...

It’s not that rare earth elements like neodymium are all that rare geologically; rather, deposits are unevenly distributed, making it easy for the metals to become pawns in a neverending ...

January, a top United States materials company announced that it had started to manufacture rare earth magnets. It was ...

They did this by adding a rare earth metal called neodymium to the material. Neodymium has unpaired electrons in its outer orbital, which makes it a good candidate to interact with the exciton's ...

Are they rare? – Not really. With names like dysprosium, neodymium and cerium, rare earths are a group of 17 heavy metals that are actually abundant in the Earth’s crust across the globe. In a 2024 ...