While using metal as fuel might sound unusual, the concept has been around for quite some time. Andrew Higgins, one of the McGill researchers, says he's been studying it for about 20 years.

In the 1991 film “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” a malevolent time-traveling and shape-shifting android called T-1000 that was made of liquid metal demonstrated a unique quality. Hit with blasts ...

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While classical alchemists expected to achieve this through mystical means, modern science understands how to change one element into another using particle physics.

For all the remarkable improvements we’ve seen in desktop 3D printers, metal printers have tended to stay out of reach for hackers, mostly because they usually rely on precise and expensive ...

The metallic films produced by this method measure 6.3 to 9.2 angstroms in thickness. That means to flatten a 3-meter metal cube into a single layer that could cover the entire city of Beijing.