The use of aluminium in wiring is unlikely to bring a smile to the face of anyone who has had to deal with it in a 1960s, or early 1970s-era house. The causes behind the fires and other accidents were ...

Copper has long been recognized for its antimicrobial properties. Ancient civilizations recognized copper's special properties long before they understood the concept of microbes discovered in the ...

We've heard a lot of talk about critical minerals recently. These are the metals and elements crucially important to the advanced technologies we have all become accustomed to: our mobile phones, ...

Copper is the oldest metal used by man. It’s use dates back to prehistoric times. Copper has been mined for more than 10,000 years with a Copper pendant found in current day Iraq being dated to 8700BC ...

In an effort to create a high-impact solution during the current global pandemic, the Peru-based Grupo LAMOSA decided to generate a line of ceramics with antiviral properties of Copper Nanoparticles ...

One of the highest sought metals throughout the course of history, the importance of copper has not diminished with time, a fact appreciated and acted upon by the 8 countries that produce the most ...

As OPN Architects, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, set out to design a new library for the residents of Moline, Ill., they acknowledged the library as an institution has evolved from a traditional space reserved ...

A modest fall in global production of copper ought to be matched by a rising price but that’s not the case as a metal widely seen as a bellwether for the broader economy because of its multiple ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese companies are cutting the use of copper as collateral for loans, a common practice in the country to get round curbs on credit in the past year, after a key rate used for ...

About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity ...