Flexible insulation and semi-sealing systems designed to help smelting and metallurgical facilities reduce heat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The site, shown here, was originally excavated during the Soviet period and was relocated using hand draw maps from a 1964 book.

In the South Atlantic, stretching from Chile to South Africa, there’s a wide span where the Earth’s magnetic field isn’t quite in line with the rest. Here, at what’s called the South Atlantic Anomaly, ...

Sometimes, science can take an unexpected turn. While trying to develop a new kind of high temperature storage battery, MIT researchers accidentally stumbled upon a new, more efficient process for ...

The company announced that it has implemented a "controlled and safe shutdown" of reduction lines 1, 2 and 3.

Traditional metal production is inherently polluting. According to data from Wood Mackenzie’s Emissions Benchmarking Tool, it is currently responsible for 9% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Many ...

Aluminium smelting utilises the Hall-Héroult process of extracting aluminium metal from its oxide, alumina. In this process, alumina is dissolved in cryolite at about 1000°C in a large pot. This ...

The site where the Pharaohs' industrial smelting complex was discovered. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities An Egyptian archaeological mission, as part of the ongoing excavation campaigns at ...

Some of our best discoveries are made by accident and, in the most recent case, a team of MIT researchers stumbled upon a method of smelting metals that could drastically reduce the carbon emissions ...