A research team at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has investigated a new method to produce iron, the main component ...

The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late ...

New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy.

A team of Chinese researchers has developed a new iron-making technology that can complete smelting in as little as three ...

Steel has underpinned modern life for centuries, but it comes at an expensive cost. The industry is responsible for nearly 7 ...