Sometimes, less really is more. By removing oxygen during synthesis, a team led by materials scientists at Penn State created ...

Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, researchers discovered that metalworkers were using iron oxide not to smelt iron ...

As one of the most effective materials of our time, technical ceramics are increasingly being utilized to replace metals, polymers and refractory materials in a number of applications, making the ...

From ancient pottery to high-tech engineering, ceramics have come a long way. Can AI and new techniques finally make them ...

Iron and manganese compounds, in addition to sulfate, may play an important role in converting methane to carbon dioxide and eventually carbonates in the Earth's oceans, according researchers looking ...