By directing pulses of laser light at atoms, researchers can study how radioactive elements decay in a matter of seconds. The ...

With performance three times better than copper’s, this new material could substantially improve heat management of ...

The war in the Middle East has caused a number of commodity prices to spike. Oil costs, fertilizer costs, and even helium costs are rising. One commodity is bucking that trend. The price of copper has ...

Demand for copper is surging because of demand from new technologies, but suppliers are struggling to keep up, and they are likely to fall further behind in the coming years, resulting in shortfalls ...

Members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe gathered at the U.S. Capitol to protest a proposal a proposed copper mine at Oak Flat, a site they consider sacred. (2015 file photo by Jamie Cochran/Cronkite ...

Worries about the Iran war have rocked financial markets, raising concerns that higher oil prices will lead to a global economic slowdown. Copper, one of the more highly cyclical metals, has pulled ...

Travis Kalanick launches Atoms, a new venture aiming to build a "wheelbase for robots." Atoms wants to build a platform for specialized industrial robots, not humanoid designs. Atoms is acquiring ...

Uber founder Travis Kalanick has a new company called Atoms focused on robotics that, according to its website, will operate in the food, mining, and transportation industries. Kalanick is rolling his ...

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Chinese smelters continue to churn out record quantities of copper, swelling stockpiles and threatening to slow the metal’s powerful gains. Refined copper output is expected to rise to almost 1.2 ...

Almost half a century ago, a remarkable molecule called metallocene took center stage in chemistry, earning Geoffrey Wilkinson and Ernst Otto Fischer the Nobel Prize. These organic compounds, made of ...