Examine the frame of your electric car, or the skeleton of your LEED-certified green building, and you’ll see coal. Not literal coal, mind you. You’ll see steel components that rely on dirty coal to ...
For years, scientists noticed that magnetic fields could improve steel, but no one knew exactly why. New simulations reveal that magnetism changes how iron atoms behave, making it harder for carbon ...
Pressure vessels are the names given to closed containers that house gases or liquids at a significantly different pressure to ambient pressure. Given that safety and reliability are two key factors ...
In the movie Conan the Barbarian, we hear a great deal about “the riddle of steel.” We are never told exactly what that riddle is, but in modern times, it might be: What’s the difference between 4150 ...
A Maine company that recently started processing steel with a next-generation, $1.4 million laser has actually been handling metal since before the state was a state. American Steel and Aluminum LLC ...
US tariffs on steel and aluminum doubled to 50% as of 12:01 am ET on Wednesday, a move cheered by the beleaguered American steel industry but worrisome to sectors that heavily use the metals, from car ...
It’s easy for Americans to think President Donald Trump’s aluminum and steel tariffs won’t affect them. Most of us aren’t shopping for raw metals, after all. Yet the 25% tariffs rolled out on ...