In the classic Italian epic Dante’s Inferno, the descent into Hell is regularly described in great detail when the protagonist isn’t fainting from the sheer horror of it all. When I was approached to ...

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Last summer, Decibel Magazine published an op-ed questioning whether the underground metal scene has a “social justice warrior problem.” The piece was revelatory of the current state of metal: ...

New research shows that magnesium and other metals in mine waste can be solubilized and recovered thanks to acid-producing bacteria. Researcher Nathan van Wyk believes that the method has great ...

We’ve spent enough time talking about Revocation on this site for you to know that we think they’re the absolute bees knees and that their new album Chaos of Forms, comes out on August 16th. But since ...

A team at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is working to create metal implants that disintegrates on its own after the injury heals. The major goal is to revolutionize ...

A new technique enables the use of fatty acids—for example, those found in cooking oil from fast-food restaurants—to dissolve and separate silver. The process requires light and diluted hydrogen ...

Due to the existence of considerable quantities of metallic and carbonaceous impurities, the key factor and mechanism for the reported toxicity of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are unclear. Here, we first ...

In a recent study published in the Chemical Engineering Journal, researchers from the Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä developed a novel method that allows for the utilization of substances such ...