For decades, one of fusion energy’s hardest problems has been keeping superheated plasma from blasting holes in reactor walls. A United States team working on the DIII-D tokamak now reports using ...

Neodymium is a rare earth, one of the minerals near the bottom of the periodic table that are crucial for everyday life. The element is among the most valuable of all the rare earths because it’s so ...

Scientists from Northwest A&F University in China have developed an innovative technology to extract and collect boron from seawater. Neodymium-iron-boron rare earth magnets – used extensively in ...

Boron, component 5 on the table of elements, exists in multiple allotropic types, with crystalline and amorphous powders being the most industrially appropriate. Crystalline boron normally embraces a ...

When it comes to eliminating toxic and expensive heavy metals in the chemical industry, a new study from the University of Würzburg points the way forward. The team led by chemistry professor Holger ...

Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KIFE) and US Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) researchers have discovered ways to better control core plasma using boron powder, according to South Korea’s ...

There are no stoplights in Boron. There’s no youth center either, though much of the town’s daily life revolves around its children. There are still Joshua trees, only a few thousand less now. Carless ...