Greener process recovers over 96% of rare earths from permanent magnets

Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have developed a solid-phase extraction process that enables the ...

Low-cost method could standardize microplastic extraction from soils worldwide

A new "gold standard" for soil analysis and microplastic extraction has been developed at the University of New England (UNE) ...
New Atlas

Fast, low-cost direct lithium extraction could avert a supply crisis

Canadian company Volt Lithium has developed and pilot-tested a new low-cost lithium extraction method to pull this critical battery metal out of low-concentration brines. Now it plans to turn old oil ...
Wired

'Green' gold extraction method replaces cyanide with starch

Extracting gold from ore is a poisonous business. The most common method is cyanide leaching, where cyanide salts in solution are used to suck the gold out from its ore. You get gold, but you also get ...
BioTechniques

A peek behind the paper – David Saul and Jo Stanton on the new method for DNA extraction

Take a look behind the scenes of a recent Reports article, entitled: ‘Rapid extraction of DNA suitable for NGS workflows from bacterial cultures using the PDQeX’, as we ask authors about PDQeX, a new ...