Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the war for clean energy and climate survival, scientists have found an unlikely ally: a metal-eating microbe. Tiny but ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Rare earth elements from ore are vital for modern life but refining them after mining is costly, harms the environment and mostly occurs abroad. A new study describes a proof of ...

A new study published in Nature Communications describes a proof of principle for engineering a bacterium, Gluconobacter oxydans, that takes a first step towards meeting skyrocketing rare earth ...

(Nanowerk News) Rare earth elements from ore are vital for modern life but refining them after mining is costly, harms the environment and mostly occurs abroad. “We’re trying to come up with an ...