Study shows what happens when crystalline grains in metals reform at nanometer scales, improving metal properties.

While iron and calcium are the metals that get the most attention, zinc is also important for human health and function.

New understanding of metal electrolysis could help optimize production of metals like lithium and iron.

Electric vehicle batteries, wind turbine generators and hydrogen fuel cells are among technologies likely to be affected by the conflict.

Scientists believed the asteroid Psyche could be a big ball of pure iron, but it's likely harboring a hidden rocky component, new research shows.

Cannabis plants can take up heavy metals from the soil. Researchers have ideas for how to protect cannabis users, particularly cancer patients, from harm.

Pollution from more frequent floods and wildfires – exacerbated by the warming climate – is threatening human health and poses particular risks to the brain.

Researchers have come up with a more environmentally friendly way to extract rare earth elements, critical for tech like smartphones and car batteries.

For "urban mining" of precious metals, researchers have adapted the flash Joule method to get gold, silver, rhodium, and other materials from e-waste.

A new liquid metal can turn motion into energy, even when completely submerged in water.