The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how ...

Think of an object made of iron: An I-beam, a car frame, a nail. Now imagine that half of the iron in that object owes its existence to bacteria living two and a half billion years ago. That's the ...

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This post is the second in a three-part series on how living creatures use the elements of the periodic table. Read the first post here, and learn more about the elements on NOVA's two-hour special, ...

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

China's rare-earth monopoly enabled economic warfare through April export restrictions, but American iron nitride magnet ...

Experiments show how concentrations of rare earth elements, critical to the green energy transition, might be hiding in plain sight in iron-rich deposits around the world. When you purchase through ...

Researchers found that Somali nomads who ate iron restricted diets (very low in meat, but rich in dairy) had lower prevalence of infectious diseases than those that ate more meat. Dietary iron falls ...

New research flips a long-held belief that frozen environments slow down chemical reactions and helps explain why Arctic ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Think of an object made of iron: An I-beam, a car frame, a nail. Now imagine that half of the iron in that object owes its existence to bacteria living two and a half billion years ...

The tipping point for the iron fortification debate came in 1978 when an eminent physician and scientist named William Crosby published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association ...