"This finding takes decades of assumptions on metal corrosion and flips them on their head."

"It's exciting to think about... coating the outside of building windows with metal nanolayers to obtain energy when it rains."

MIT researchers use a new machine learning technique to rapidly evaluate new transition metal compounds to identify those that can perform specialized functions.

A new way to print conductive metal onto all sorts of surfaces such as gelatin and rose petals could lead to new kinds of flexible electronics.

There's a new way to clean up the heavy metals in contaminated soil.

MIT’s Senthil Todadri and Xiao-Gang Wen will study highly entangled quantum matter in a collaboration supported by the Simons Foundation.

Astrophysicists have identified an event 4.6 billion years ago as the likely source of some of the most coveted matter on Earth.

A new protein-based sensor could help track down the rare-earth metals that are vital for your phone.

A new solvent may mean fewer lithium-ion batteries left over from phones, electric vehicles, and other electronic devices will end up in landfills.

Heating liquid metal turned it into a plasma, but the strangest bit is what happened to its physics.