Japan reduces reliance on China with rare earth-free magnets

Japanese manufacturers are developing technologies to make powerful motor magnets used in electric and hybrid vehicles ...
Mining

AML awarded $2M US defense contract for domestic heavy magnets

Advanced Magnet Lab (AML) has been awarded a $2 million Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) contract for the qualification of domestically made high-grade sintered NdFeB (neodymium-iron-boron) magnets. The ...
Phys.org

Massive magnets are on the move: Repurposing electromagnets for research

Plan a route, grab some snacks, and fuel up. Engineers and scientists have been sending massive magnets from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national labs on cross-country road trips. Magnets are at ...
Bloomberg L.P.

US Needs Another Decade to Fix $1.2 Trillion Rare Earth Crisis

For the past year, President Donald Trump has waged a campaign to break America’s dependence on the rare earths that remain Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s unbeatable leverage over the global economy.
Ars Technica

Heavy, highly magnetic star may be first magnetar precursor we’ve seen

Magnetars are some of the most extreme objects we know about, with magnetic fields so strong that chemistry becomes impossible in their vicinity. They’re neutron stars with a superfluid interior that ...