It looks like a tube made of glass but it’s actually aluminum. Well, aluminum with an asterisk beside it — this is not elemental aluminum but rather a material made using it. We got onto the buzz ...

Transparent aluminum oxide (TAlOx), a real material despite its sci-fi name, is incredibly hard and resistant to scratches, making it perfect for protective coatings on electronics, optical sensors, ...

[Ted Yapo] shared a method of easily and conveniently soldering to aluminum, which depends on a little prep work to end up only slightly more complex than soldering to copper. A typical way to make a ...

Aluminum is used everywhere from soda to space capsules, but that hasn't always been the case. Short Wave is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the periodic table with profiles of some of its ...

With surgical precision, Forrest Tucker sliced through a La Grange Park homeowner’s aluminum downspout with a hacksaw. Tucker crimped the edges and fitted them snugly into an elbow piece connecting ...

Last night, I noticed that there was ice forming on the side of my house. Further investigation revealed that one of the main downspouts was frozen, which I'm guessing caused a nice chain reaction and ...