Yan Yao, a professor at University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, along with collaborators from Singapore, Zhejiang University and Seoul National University, have published a review in ...

An international research team led by the University of Bayreuth has discovered a metal that combines electrical conductivity with internal polarity. This enables it to exhibit second harmonic ...

The lube kitchen series part 9: metal deactivators – oiling the wheels of corrosion control By Steven Lumley, technical manager, WearCheck Metal deactivators play a key role in the fight […] ...

Plants do more than photosynthesize – some of them make gold. In a boreal forest in northern Finland, scientists found tiny gold particles inside Norway spruce needles. Plants like the Norway spruce ...

Heavy metals are dangerous at high levels, but treatments that remove can also be risky and only benefit certain patients.

A new study has, for the first time, uncovered a connection between bacteria living in Norway spruce needles and gold nanoparticles. This discovery could pave the way for environmentally friendly gold ...

Money doesn’t grow on trees, so the old saying goes, but gold just might on the Christmas trees of Lapland. In a new study, scientists have uncovered a clear link between bacteria living in Norway ...

More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details about their composition.

Lithium metal, one possible replacement, offers about ten times more charge storage than graphite. Unfortunately, lithium has a serious drawback: as it cycles, it tends to form tiny needle-like ...

A new study has uncovered a connection between bacteria living in Norway spruce needles and gold nanoparticles. This discovery, made by the research team at the University of Oulu, Finland, could pave ...