Discover the fascinating process of creating tools using liquid metal and sand! This video takes you through the unique ...

Andrew Iams saw something strange while looking through his electron microscope. He was examining a sliver of a new aluminum ...

3D printing creates shapes that would be impossible with any other method. For example, in 2015 GE designed fuel nozzles for airplane engines that could only be made with metal 3D printing.

Quasicrystals, once considered impossible, were found in a 3D-printed aluminum alloy – and they make it stronger. This could ...

Then you'll need to use a step drill for accuracy and to stop the metal snagging or tearing. Edges are shaped and flattened by cross filing, smoothed by draw filing and softened using an emery cloth.

Welding and fabrication play a big part in how things are made. Have you ever wondered how strong metal parts are built to ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Metal Gear's grim and competent special ops protagonist Solid Snake was only grim and quiet thanks to strict tech limitations restricting what his ...

In this segment of Offshore Engineer TV, Paula Lepore, Global Projects Engineering Manager and Anshul Godha, Materials Scientist at Parker Hannifin discuss a new approach to understanding and ...

It works like this: Metal powder is spread evenly in a thin layer. Then a powerful laser moves over the powder, melting it together. After the first layer is finished, a new layer of powder is spread ...

The shape of tiny silver seeds made of fewer than 200 atoms depends on their precise size and temperature and defines the shape of the final nanoparticle.