A rare earth metal called samarium that is used in defense, cancer treatments and navigation has been named by the U.S. Geological Survey as the weakest link in the critical mineral supply chain.

The United States has expressed growing concern over its dependence on China for samarium supplies, a rare earth element vital to defense and aerospace sectors, as Beijing tightens regulations over ...

Nuclear triumph Zeynep Talip, Rugard Dressler, and Dorothea Schumann (left to right) revel in their success at measuring the half-life of samarium-146. (Courtesy: Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Markus ...

Dublin, Jan. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Samarium Cobalt Magnets Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Forecast and Opportunity 2022-2027" report has been added to ...

NEW YORK, United States, May 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zion Market Research has published a new research report titled “Samarium Cobalt Magnets Market By Product Type (Cylinder, Ring, And Others), ...

Samarium was first observed spectroscopically by a Swiss chemist, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac in 1853 while working with dydimia. Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, a French chemist first ...

Divalent samarium compounds are important reagents for reductive transformations in organic chemistry. However, currently, a high amount of this reagent is required in most reactions, and it also ...

In May 2016, close to the northern border of Switzerland, radiochemist Zeynep Talip suited up for the hot laboratory (Hotlab) at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), where experiments with radioactive ...

President Trump says a new trade framework with China will give the U.S. access to rare earth minerals. China has a tight grip on one element critical to U.S. military hardware: Samarium. Gracelin ...

For the first time, physicists peer inside the nucleus of a molecule using electrons as a probe Science history: Marie Curie discovers a strange radioactive substance that would eventually kill her — ...