An artisan applies a gold leaf to wood by using the "guazzo" technique, burnishing the gold leaf with an agate, in a workshop of Florence. Gold is the most malleable element, according to Mike ...

For nearly 100 years, scientists thought they understood everything there was to know about how metals bend. They were wrong. Researchers have demonstrated that the rules of metal-bending aren't so ...

THE following observations on the minute structure of metals, which have been hammered into thin leaves, are instructive. Notwithstanding the great opacity of metals, it is quite possible to procure, ...

For nearly 100 years, scientists thought they understood everything there was to know about how metals bend. They were wrong. Materials science and engineering researchers at the University of ...