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.

A new eco-friendly technique to upcycle metal waste into multi-purpose aerogels could be used for biomedical purposes and light-weight building materials.

A new study reveals a mechanism behind silver's dissipation from gold-silver nanoparticles.The discovery could help fine-tune nanoparticle alloys for specific uses.

A new way to make bulk metals with enhanced properties like hardness starts with smashing individual nanoclusters.