First it was self-healing polymers. Then it was self-healing concrete. Now we have self-healing metals. A team of scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico recently observed a ...

Less than a decade after Alta Ski Area installed its Supreme lift, it is making plans to replace it. General manager Mike Maughan said a summer inspection of the lift revealed it is experiencing ...

WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) - In the 1991 film "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," a malevolent time-traveling and shape-shifting android called T-1000 that was made of liquid metal demonstrated a unique ...

Solid-state lithium batteries fail for the same reason over-bent paperclips snap – metal fatigue in the anode itself, according to a new study. The findings, which show that this fatigue follows ...

Achieving high fatigue strength in the 3D-printed NTD-Al alloy (AM NTD-Al). (A) Number of cycles to failure plotted against the maximum stress of AM NTD-Al, compared with other reported 3D-printed ...