Reposted by Grace Panetti
Rare earth elements power your phone, your car, even MRI machines, but extracting them has an environmental and geopolitical cost. JHU researchers are rethinking that: recycling magnets, using plants as miners.
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Heavy metals
Rare earth elements are crucial for our modern age. Crucial, too, is solving the environmental challenges surrounding them.