On this day (August 25) in 1951, Robert John Arthur Halford was born in Sutton Coldfield, England. Today, fans know him as Rob “Metal God” Halford, frontman of Judas Priest. His onstage image and ...

Morbid Metal’s protagonist can shapeshift into three different characters, a hard-hitting close-range axe wielder, a fast-moving mid-range swordsman, and a levitating long-range shooter. Each of the ...

Extrusion, which can produce complex parts made of lightweight metals, is an increasingly important manufacturing process for everything from buildings to electric vehicles. Pacific Northwest National ...

Andrew Iams saw something strange while looking through his electron microscope. He was examining a sliver of a new aluminum alloy at the atomic scale, searching for the key to its strength, when he ...

Science fiction is often several steps ahead of the real world when it comes to conjuring up new technologies. Back in 1991, ground breaking visual effects helped bring the shape-shifting liquid metal ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The next generation of robots may not look anything like the rigid, mechanical machines we’re used to. Instead, imagine a robot that moves more like an octopus or a human hand, ...

Researchers have found special atomic patterns called quasicrystals in 3D-printed aluminum alloys. Quasicrystals increase the strength of 3D-printed aluminum, the researchers discovered, making it ...