materials
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Discoveries & Research
A greener, cleaner way to extract cobalt from ‘junk’ materials
Penn researchers led a collaborative effort pioneering safer, more sustainable technique to extract elements critical to battery-powered technologies. Findings pave…
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Entrepreneurship
How China’s export ban on these 3 materials could impact smartphones and national security
Gallium, germanium, and antimony are key in the production of high-tech products. China has banned exports of key materials used…
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Discoveries & Research
Iberian Neolithic societies had a deep knowledge of archery techniques and materials
A research team led by the UAB has made exceptional discoveries on prehistoric archery from the early Neolithic period, 7,000…
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Financial Markets
Why MP Materials Stock Popped 11% Today
Shares of MP Materials (NYSE: MP), a miner of rare earth metals, shot up 11% through 10:15 a.m. ET Tuesday…
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Entrepreneurship
China responds to U.S chip sanctions with a ban on these key materials
The U.S. gets almost half of its supply of gallium and germanium from China. China announced Tuesday it is banning…
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Discoveries & Research
In major materials breakthrough, team solves a nearly 200-year-old challenge in polymers
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new polymer design that appears…
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Financial Markets
Hedge funds bet against power and pile into materials, says Goldman Sachs
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Global hedge funds sold U.S. electric and water utilities stocks at the fastest pace…
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Discoveries & Research
Engineering nature’s blueprint: Dendron-based assemblies for chlorophyll’s materials
Researchers often look to photosynthesis — a process that turns sunlight into chemical energy in plants and bacteria — as…
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Space
Super Insulation Requires Super Materials
NASA researchers helped create an insulation coating that blocks heat and sunlight Without proper insulation, sunlight can make buildings feel…
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Discoveries & Research
New route to ‘quantum spin liquid’ materials discovered
A new route to materials with complex ‘disordered’ magnetic properties at the quantum level has been produced by scientists for…
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