It is not a real surface but a picture of how the electrons in a metal behave. These pictures explain such properties of metals as luster, ductility and the conduction of electricity and heat ...

“Strange metals” have that name for a reason – these materials exhibit some unusual conductive properties and surprisingly, even have things in common with black holes. Now, a new study has ...

Platinum was introduced in Europe around 1750. Even before the arrival of Columbus, platinum was well-known to native South Americans. Platinum belongs to the platinum group of metals and it is ...

MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...