This post was originally published on this site. As the United States pushes to reduce its dependence on China for critical minerals, New York-based Radical AI is taking a different approach to securing strategic materials: using artificial intelligence to develop new alloys that require fewer supply-constrained metals.  The company has developed a self-driving laboratory platform that uses AI and robotics to design, manufacture and test advanced materials, an innovation that it says dramatically shortens the discovery process for alloys used in aerospace, defense and other industrial applications.  In September, Radical AI partnered with Sandia National Laboratories to perform research on metal-hydrogen...

This post was originally published on this site.Stocks of uranium companies are falling despite the strongest long-term fuel prices in more than 18 years, as investors weigh an expected tightening of supply against rising costs and the difficulty of bringing new projects into production. The VettaFi Global Uranium Mining Index, a benchmark tracking uranium mining shares worldwide, dropped 16% in September and the Nasdaq Sprott Junior Uranium Miners Index lost 22%, while spot uranium prices barely moved. Financial-market pressures appear to be overwhelming an improving fuel-market outlook, Sprott market strategist Paul Wong wrote in an Oct. 28 analysis. “Even if...