Curiouser and curiouser: Strange metals are getting a little stranger. Normal metals such as copper and aluminum are old hat — physicists have a strong grasp on the behavior of the electrons within.

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Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals -- materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and magnetism. Now, a team of physicists has made a breakthrough in this ...

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Scientists at EPFL have reimagined 3D printing by turning simple hydrogels into tough metals and ceramics. Their process ...

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Yan Yao, a professor at University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, along with collaborators from Singapore, ...

In pursuit of prestige and riches, wealthy people across medieval Europe worked in vain to transmute everyday metals into gold. Today, this process, known as chrysopoeia, is mostly dismissed as an ...

Aluminum and magnesium are among the “many” metals that melt at lower temperatures under extremely high pressure. The results came from a quantum computer simulation, but model real materials ...

Many useful metals unearthed from U.S. mines are discarded. When mining operations dig for valuable metals, they often exhume ore containing other metals too. These by-product elements are usually ...

Heavy metals like arsenic and lead are known to be toxic in high doses, and some of these metals increase the risk of cancer. But now, a new meta-analysis draws attention to an underappreciated risk ...

Solid metals are porous and, as every chemistry student learns, absorb gases. Metals also absorb oils, a recent observation. The implications of this for lubrication were last week unfolded to the ...