When a liquid metal cools and turns into a solid, its atoms come together to form crystals. The structure of these crystals is not perfect. Sometimes an extra layer of atoms squeezes between other ...

Over the weekend, the gymnasium had been roped off when two trusses cracked due to the hundreds of thousands of pounds of ...

Their crystalline structure allows them to be 'worked' to make them stronger. Mark Miodownik describes the advantages that metal had over earlier substances used by humans such as rock and bone ...