Some of the most coveted metals on the planet are not just expensive, they are almost unimaginably scarce in Earth's crust ...

Why would you want to detect metal? Oh, I don't know … maybe you want to find some gold in the ground. You could dig up ALL the dirt, or you could find the location that has the gold before you dig.

Engineers have spent decades trying to build metals that do not snap, melt, or grind away under extreme conditions, and for a ...

A computer simulation shows metallic alloy where atoms (colored spheres) are arranged in subtle chemical patterns beneath a network of dislocations (green lines). These tangled defects move during ...