At the recycling center, powerful magnets will pull out steel. Spinning drums will toss aluminum into bins. Copper wires will get neatly bundled up for resale. But as the conveyor belt keeps rolling, ...

Refined tellurium, a rare mineral, in Utah that came from discarded mine tailings. It will be used to make solar panels. The U.S. government took a large step to retrieve critical minerals from mine ...

Terence Musho has received funding from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. When the computer or phone you’re using right now ...