Bond movie titles can be deceiving-- diamonds are not forever when it comes to demanding tasks like cutting steel. Now, researchers have combined diamond with cubic boron nitride, a hard human-made ...

In an effort to make alloys stronger, researchers at North Carolina State University took a cue from bamboo: They increased the grain size gradually, going from the skin toward the center of the metal ...

Washington, D.C.—Ever since the Bronze Age, humans have experimented with combining different metals to create alloys with properties superior to either metal alone. But not all metals readily form ...

New solution: Feng Nei in the lab with his zinc alloy prototype. (Credit: Monash University) Orthopaedic implants that bear loads while bones heal, then disappear once they’re no longer needed, could ...

Rio Tinto unveiled Monday a new aluminum alloy that could reduce the weight of vehicle wheels by as much as 7%, while making them stronger 15% to 20% stronger than traditional wheels. The world’s No.