Plenty of schools are back in session starting next week, but roughly 47,000 students in Detroit’s public schools…

Apparently, police needed to kill 11 people before the Indian courts could take appropriate action to halt the…

Ötzi the Iceman—our favorite Copper Age corpsicle—is the gift that keeps on giving. A recent analysis of the metal…

A square-shaped copper mask pulled from a tomb in the southern Andes is resetting our notions of where and when…

There’s about five pounds of salvageable copper inside your typical photocopier (mostly in the power supply and the…

There’s a moment in this video after the molten copper is poured on top of the raw steak and after there’s been a…

It’s basically the war of the worlds. Heaven and hell smashing themselves together. A song of ice and fire. It’s…

Turns out, the hard shell of a coconut is really, really good at trapping the heat of the molten copper! Because…

When you check into a hospital your risk of infection rises, and research suggests a major source for these…

Of all the ways humans have altered the Earth, mining must be one of the most awesome—just for the sheer ratio of…

A few weeks ago, we looked at a photo essay on Mir Mine, a nearly mile-wide mine in Eastern Siberia that's one of…

Now that we're closing in on Christmas, it might be time to do some arts and crafts. Leave the popcorn stringing to…

We've heard about plenty of promising electronic applications for miracle material graphene from headphones, to super…

Lithium may store the power that drives out modern mobile world but it's copper that delivers it. This malleable…

In a warehouse at the Oregon State Hospital (originally called the Oregon State Insane Asylum) contains an unusual…

It always pleases me when I find science projects that I haven't done yet. This one, which allows people to use a…

With a little work, you can make a penny glow - but only if it was minted before 1982. What was the big change in…

Punxsutawney Phil has deigned us worthy of an early thaw so there's no use procrastinating on your spring…

Ideally, my desk would be a clean space—populated by only my MacBook Air and nothing else. But this little…

After seeing all the copper furniture makers cooked up at the New York and Milan furniture design shows, it became…