Finding the right lubricant for the right purpose is a task that is often extremely important in industry. Not only to reduce ...

Transparent aluminum oxide (TAlOx), a real material despite its sci-fi name, is incredibly hard and resistant to scratches, ...

President Trump on Monday imposed blanket 25% tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum, an escalation of trade tensions with ripple effects that might be felt by American consumers. Why it matters: ...

You walk to the brake department, where you see piles of work-in-process. Stacks of panels of multiple thicknesses sit with ...

This method effectively addresses the problem that thinning defects of thin metal walls cannot be easily and quickly detected by electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) at large lift-off, under ...

By Teddy Rosenbluth Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has often trained his criticisms of vaccines on a common ingredient: aluminum, which he has suggested is responsible for a litany of childhood ailments ...

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CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China University of Chinese ...

Last year, Google Maps on Android was revamped so that the main map view displayed information using sheets, and the entire app is now getting this visual redesign. Instead of place listings being ...

After two years in the metal band Tygers of Pan Tang, a dissatisfied Sykes quit in 1982 to join the Irish band Thin Lizzy, nudging them towards the metal sound for which they would become widely ...

The members of Thin Lizzy played on a Sykes solo single that fulfilled his contract, and he was asked to join the band. Sykes brought a distinctly heavy metal touch to the band’s final album ...