
: Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Oceans , frozen ova , salmon die-off , etc : Tips We got suggest stories . TIPS Canada media : The sockeye’s woes in BC get a national airing Science News : Are there end-runs around China’s grip on rare earths Rare earth metals , their industrial importance and China’s near-monopoly on several of them , are in the news a lot . Usually it is in business pages , trade journals , and technical , bloggy sites . This week’s Science News magazine , the biweekly that the Society for Science and the Public puts out from Washington DC , gives to the curious a full explanation in plain English how they work and why it matters . More important , writer Devin Powell touches base with some of the world’s foremost researchers