New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...

Earth scientists often face huge challenges when researching Earth's history: many significant events occurred such a long ...

Bacterial styrene oxidase isomerase has been known to science for more than three decades, but its mechanism of action has ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how ...

The story begins at Kvemo Bolnisi, a smelting workshop perched on a hillside in the Caucasus. Soviet archaeologists first dug ...

A bacterium that uses sulfide as an energy source to metabolize solid iron oxides has been discovered, revealing a biological reaction that was previously assumed to be solely chemical. This finding ...

Experts reinvestigated a 3,000-year-old site of Kvemo Bolnisi in Georgia and found that what they believed to be an iron smelting site was something else.

Steel has underpinned modern life for centuries, but it comes at an expensive cost. The industry is responsible for nearly 7 ...

In developing a versatile new electrolyte, a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers has taken the next step toward ...

The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And according to new research, a copper smelting site used roughly 3,000 years ago ...

The report "Cathode Materials Market by Battery Type (Lead-acid, Lithium-ion, Nickel-cadmium (NiCd)), Material (Lithium-ion ...