Lithium batteries power much of our modern engineering, including smartphones, electric vehicles, pacemakers, and industrial aircraft. Unfortunately, the process of extracting lithium from the Earth ...

After three years of research, two South Dakota Mines professors have developed a sustainable method to extract rare earth elements from discarded coal mine waste, possibly creating a domestic source ...

Fat extractions are conventionally performed utilizing acid prehydrolysis and the Soxhlet method, which is tedious, manual and time-intensive. Therefore, faster and more automated methods are in ...

Natural product extraction is a crucial process in the fields of chemistry, biology, and pharmaceuticals. It involves isolating bioactive compounds from plants, animals, and other natural sources to ...

Let's face it, we are a results-driven society. Too focused on the outcome, people don't often think about the "how." For instance, did you think about "how" you got to work this morning or did you ...

Explore economical honey extraction methods for small-scale beekeepers and learn how one apiary uses a unique system to extract honey from frames. How does a small beekeeping operation get all that ...