An X-ray scanner, some small metal balls, and a newly developed algorithm. That is all you need to make a 3D model that enables you to look inside art objects without dismantling them. Thanks to the ...

MIT has discovered a new way to penetrate the layers of time using CT scans to uncover how the earliest civilizations of the past worked with metals. Metallurgy, or the use of metals, revolutionized ...

Around 5,000 years ago, people in what is now Iran began turning dull stone into shining metal. By heating copper ore until it melted, they learned to pull liquid metal from rock, a skill that helped ...

Around 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity known as smelting. This monumental shift gave them a powerful new technology ...