A new method for testing how well certain plants pull metal contaminants out of the ground could finally make the process ...

Fifty years ago, scientists hit upon what they thought could be the next rocket fuel. Carboranes -- molecules composed of boron, carbon and hydrogen atoms clustered together in three-dimensional ...

A groundbreaking method of recycling electronic waste could revolutionize the extraction of precious metals for green technologies. Gisele Azimi, a professor at the University of Toronto and an expert ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana – The production of rare earth metals is a global $4 billion annual market that continues to grow as new electronics, computerized engines for aircraft, warships, electric ...

A research team from Tsinghua University in Beijing has unveiled a powerful new technique to extract hazardous and valuable metals from industrial wastewater, using an unconventional method that ...

Copper smelting - a critical process in metal production - often generates slag, which contains valuable metals. This slag has historically been thrown away, causing harm to the environment and ...

Researchers have developed a new method to extract metals, such as copper, from their parent ore body. The research team have provided a proof of concept for the application of an electric field to ...

BEIJING, 21st April, 2026 (WAM) -- Chinese scientists have developed a universal green, high-efficiency membrane separation method to selectively extract a range of heavy metal resources critical to ...