Category: Metal

China’s Metal Controls Fail

Commentary In the latest break between China and the United States, Beijing imposed export controls on gallium and germanium. The two minerals, which Beijing plans to restrict starting Aug. 1, are critical to high-tech products like ultra-fast computer chips, electric vehicles, radar, night vision devices, missile defense, fiber optics, LEDs, and satellite imagery. China produces…


Nanotechnology Used in mRNA Vaccines and 2,000 Food Items Goes Unlabeled

Unbeknownst to most Americans, thousands of the food items on our store shelves contain ingredients that are made using nanotechnology. Specifically, they are made through a process that converts things like silver, copper, gold, aluminum, silicon, carbon, and different metal oxides into tiny, atom-sized particles that are one-billionth of a meter in size. They do…


Rust 101: Give New Life to Ugly Metal

Rust is like a cancer in that it keeps growing, looks unsightly, and eats away at its host—in this case, metal—weakening and destroying it. You need to stop it ASAP. From outdoor furniture, mailboxes, and the tools you left out in the rain to jewelry, cast iron pots and pans, and parts of your car,…


Cowboy Artist Welds Rusted Tractors, Scrap Metal Into Unreal Western Animals, Garners Worldwide Fame

A sculptor from South Dakota is immortalizing the cultural heritage of the land he loves by turning rusted scrap metal and old farming equipment into breathtaking, life-sized works of art. John Lopez, 51, lives on a 14-acre hobby ranch in Lemmon, South Dakota, the town where he was born and raised. Besides his two (breathing)…


[Premiering 5/27 at 1PM ET] Nanotechnology Used in mRNA COVID Vaccines, 2,000 Food Items, Goes Unlabeled

Unbeknownst to most Americans, thousands of the food items on our store shelves contain ingredients that are made using nanotechnology. Specifically, they are made through a process that converts things like silver, copper, gold, aluminum, silicon, carbon, and different metal oxides into tiny, atom-sized particles that are one-billionth of a meter in size. They do…


Nanotechnology Used in mRNA Vaccines, 2,000 Food Items, Goes Unlabeled

Unbeknownst to most Americans, thousands of the food items on our store shelves contain ingredients that are made using nanotechnology. Specifically, they are made through a process that converts things like silver, copper, gold, aluminum, silicon, carbon, and different metal oxides into tiny, atom-sized particles that are one-billionth of a meter in size. They do…


Don’t Take Russia Back to 1917, Russian Metals King Potanin Warns

LONDON—Confiscating the assets of companies that have fled Russia since the invasion of Ukraine would shatter investor confidence for decades and take Russia back to the calamitous days of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, metals magnate Vladimir Potanin has said. Potanin, president and biggest shareholder of Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and refined…


Damage to United Boeing 777 Engine Consistent With Metal Fatigue: NTSB

The Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine failed on Saturday with a “loud bang” four minutes after takeoff from Denver, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Robert Sumwalt told reporters following an initial analysis of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. There was minor damage to the aircraft body but no structural damage, he…


Mystery Metal Monolith Turns out to Be Turkish Government Gimmick

ANKARA, Turkey—A metal monolith that mysteriously appeared and disappeared on a field in southeast Turkey turned out to be a publicity gimmick before a government event Tuesday during which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a space program for the country. The three-meter-high (about 10-foot-high) metal slab bearing an ancient Turkic script, was found Friday…