The retired director of metallurgy at a Tacoma, Washington-based steel foundry that produced steel casting for Navy subs pled guilty to fraud last week after admitting to faking steel strength test ...

A Washington metallurgist has pleaded guilty to major fraud after she spent decades faking tests on steel used to build subs for the U.S. Navy. Federal prosecutors say that her behavior put sailors at ...

The 4 to 7 percent increase in background radiation poses problems for sensitive scientific instruments. Geiger counters, ...

In Session 4 of the KLA Instruments Indentation University, we measure a sample of plain low-carbon 1018 steel using the KLA Instruments™ iMicro nanoindentation system. Session 4 provides a brief ...

A 10-story building looms above UC San Diego’s earthquake shake table near Scripps Ranch. Next week, the device will simulate an earthquake to see whether a structure made from a lightweight, recycled ...

The redemption arc for the Cybertruck’s windows may finally be complete. Tesla sort of revisited this test during the Cybertruck’s delivery event in November 2023. We say “sort of” because von ...

The president is under pressure from Democrats and Republicans to block the sale to Japan’s Nippon Steel, which could upset a key foreign ally. By Jim Tankersley Jim Tankersley is an economics ...