When melting sodium at high pressures, the material goes through a transition in which its electrical conductivity drops threefold.

Researchers from CRC CARE are pioneering a world-first technology to warn people if their local water or air is contaminated with dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals and metal-like substances.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) have done the first theoretical determination of the dominant damping mechanism that settles down excited magnetic states—“ringing” in physics parlance—in some key metals.

Cronimet Group - a German metals company that owns largest mining enterprise in Armenia on Thursday pledged to make at least $60 million in additional investments to expand its operations in the country.

Scientific research at the Centre of the Physics of Materials, a mixed venture of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Donostia-San Sebastian, has enabled the discovery of a new physical phenomenon that affects the surfaces of illuminated metals. The conclusions of the research have been published in the journal Nature.

Researchers have a better understanding of how the crystal structure of some metals becomes stable through magnetism.

While metals like copper, gold, nickel and uranium have been center-stage in the recent surge of commodities exploration and investment excitement, tin, the duller cousin, has largely been considered unworthy of notice. In the last six months, however, tin prices have risen by 40%.

First Three Holes of Phase One Show High-Grade Copper-Gold

A limitation in using hydrogen as a fuel in hydrogen-powered vehicles is the difficulty involved in storing it in a cost-effective and convenient manner. While it is possible to store hydrogen using metals, the resulting products often can be prohibitively expensive and cause environmental problems.