Findings from the 2,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal a complex trade network involving communities of highlander pastoralists.

Engineers are starting to understand exactly what goes on when doctors pump contrast agents into your body for an MRI scan.

When wetland microbes don't get the copper they need, the result may have consequences for the environment.

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

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.

“The new phenomena we are reporting is a fundamental example of responses under high pressure—and will find a place in physics textbooks.”

A new alloy made from five metals acts as an excellent catalyst for reducing CO2 into CO, research indicates.

A trove of more than 80 metal objects in Mississippi appear to be from Hernando de Soto's expedition there. The Chickasaws gave them new purpose.